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The Joy of modern Gadgets

The Little Hard Drive That Brought Me So Much Joy Of all the little gadgets that have made my working life easier, the portable hard drive holds a special place in my heart. Even now, I smile when I remember how relieved and thankful I felt when it arrived. Who would have thought that such a tiny thing could change the scene at home? In those days, I often brought office files home to read. My working hours were filled with meetings, so the quiet time after dinner was when I could study reports and prepare for the next day. Some files came in several volumes. My husband would sometimes ask why I had to bring so many home. “I need to go through the history to know what action to take next,” I would explain. Pendrives helped for a while, but the affordable ones were only 32 or 64 GB, and larger capacities were expensive. They filled up quickly, so I sometimes spread my documents across several of them. I remember a colleague with more than ten pendrives attached to a key ring. Finding th...