FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for August 18, 2010

What’s a floppy drive? ;-)

Thanks, Foxtrot, now I feel old.

My iFruit laptop still has a DVD/CD-ROM drive. The new iPatty* does not even have a USB port!

*You know, the one that looks like an oversize iPhone.

I know what it is…once.

Well Peter, you should tell him then …

No place to stick it……….

I still have an unopened package of 5 1/2” Mine’s bigger than yours…………..

Nice trick by Jason: able to talk and whistle at the same time.

You know, those coffee cup holders were ever so convenient. I really miss them.

Makes you wonder what next thing will become obsolete in this world…

^Apparently the USB, based on the iPad.

They should keep a running tab on the number of spammers we flag.

They’re still good for small files (s assuming you can still find the drives/disks.

I saved a 10” floppy and a reel from one of my former lives.

I still have a working machine that takes 5 1/2” floppies. There have been rare times when people needed data of one of them, but not in the last 5 years.

The newer harddrives no place to use floppy disk just CD roms. Dad your at the wrong place for floppy disk go to hard drive.

I’ve still got one box that is loaded with Windows 3.1.1 and takes floppies. Works like a charm for its intended purpose. Jeff

USB ports won’t be removed from real computers for a long time (the iToy doesn’t even pretend to be a real computer), but my newest one doesn’t have a parallel or serial port, so I can’t use my external modem should the need ever arise. (And it didn’t come with an internal modem obviously. Or floppy drive…) If you have anything on obsolete media like floppy discs or Zip discs, better transfer it to CD-R before the old drive dies – you probably can’t get a new drive!

Gutenburg is rolling in his grave.

I put a floppy drive in my desktop comp, just in case. I still have an emergency boot disk I use sometimes. But most transfers I use USB.

We use floppy disks all the time! As coasters.

That’s a good idea. I’ve been meaning to get some coasters

I thought a floppy drive was a satire on the book

“Moby Dick” O no, that’s a venereal disease. Sorry

I have a USB floppy drive

My favorite FoxTrot strip. -

(I have no floppy drive!) says the computer

I know he’s pretty dumb but why would he think it would go through the screen?