Jack?

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We have a high school student doing some admin/intern-y stuff for us today, and she just referred to her jump drive as a "jack". None of us in the office had heard that term before- is this a weird name or are we just tragically unhip?

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[lexinatrix.livejournal.com]

Never heard of it, even from the college-age kids I'm in class with. They usually just have little USB drives and they call them "thumb drives" if they give them any kind of nickname.

[autodidactic.livejournal.com]

It could be a personal nickname, like mc chris calling his one-hitter Margo Kidder. ;)

[pants-of-doom.livejournal.com]

Sounds like she's been reading too much early William Gibson.

[sithlet.livejournal.com]

Not that we're cool or anything, but none of my coworkers has ever referenced a "jack". Jump Drive, Flash Drive, Thumb Drive, USB stick... etc. Maybe she was referring to her USB "jack" as in port? Still... I think she's the one missing something.

[s4.livejournal.com]

It's gotta be a localized branding phenomena. Like a Jumpin Jack Flash drive.
We had a lady adorably referring to her drive as "Cruzer"

[jodi.livejournal.com]

all of ziad's jump-drive are "cruzer" drives as in brand-names so i can see where that name comes in