LynLyn wrote:
OK - first let's establish that I am a technophobic middle aged mum who
knows not a lot about computer hardware......my daughter has come home from
school and requested the purchase of a memory stick to make life easy
transfering info from our home PC to school and vice-versa for projects.
She also tells me that I would find one useful for backing up our harddrive
instead of worrying myself to death that one day I'm going to lose all my
info from our computer.

So can any kind person please tell me what I should be looking for, how much
it is likely to cost and where I can get one from (preferably online).

Many many thanks in advance for any help you can offer - and apologies for
cross posting and maybe using the wrong newsgroups...

Lynette


She's not winding you up!! There is quite a range of size an price.
Maplin might be a good place to look, or CPC. Both have on line
catalogues but you need an account for CPC, but this is easy to set up.
Sizes range from 32Mb to 1Gb.

I've just ordered another 128Mb from CPC for £20 or so. (Whether this
is the best price I don't know, I was ordering other stuff too) It's
quite a reasonable size. I keep most of my data for work on one this
size and carry it home. It is much lighter than a laptop!

http://custom1.farnell.com/cpc/
http://www.maplin.co.uk

Andrew