You need the software on the CD for Win 98 SE, but not for Win 2k or Win XP.

Costco on-line has a couple of those devices on sale right now as
well.  One of them is 128MB and the other is 256MB.  I don't remember the
prices, but they were better than the price for the 128MB Sony I got at
Christmas.

At 08:32 AM 1/15/03 -0800, you wrote:
>Maybe many of you knew these things existed, but I didn't unti9l
>yesterday.  I mentioned to a friend I was wanting something to make it
>easy for me to take files back and forth between home and work.  He gave
>me this thing about the size of a bick lighter that plugs into a usb port.
>He called it a pin drive or stick drive.  I'm not sure what the right name
>is, but absolutely the coolest thing i've seen in a long time.  You just
>pull the end cover off and plug it in.  I'm running win 2k here at work
>and it said, "new hardware found" and recognized it as drive e.  TLhis
>particular one will hold 32 meg and he says they're about $30.00  I guess
>you can buy them up to a gig, but not sure how much these would cost.  He
>said thay are a flash ram.  I'm running 95 and 98 at home, sohope one of
>those machines will see it.  Anyhow, just thought i'd mention it.
>73s
>Butch Bussen
>wa0vjr