FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for April 21, 2021

The colored iFruit joke was prescient. Apple just announced yesterday that iMacs are now in mulitple color. I feel Roger’s pain. I spent three minutes trying to find the CD slot of my most recent iMac before realizing it didn’t have one.

It probably doesn’t have a cup holder, either.

Anyone remember the 8 inch floppy disks? so many got bent and ruined with no back up.

When I was in college 3.5 inch disks were a new thing, replacing the older 5.25 inch floppy disks. I heard someone in the computer lab tried folding a 5.25 inch disk in half to get it to fit into the 3.5 inch slot.

No floppy drive. Can you imaging a PC today with out one USB input?

I found about 10 lbs worth of floppy drives (3.5 inch) in my attic. I even have a about a half dozen 5.25 inch floppies that contained fonts. I say “contained” (past tense) because even if I could find something to read them, they would probably be unreadable after 20 years in the attic.

It was a heck of an adjustment, wasn’t it?

This isn’t comic, it’s history

I remember this strip and now think about the headphone jack in the iPods.

Floppy?

Jason is enjoying dad’s inadequacy.

It is a bit annoying to me that the way that laptop companies have made their systems more compact is to simply remove features – even to the point of removing the connectors that you need to get the external versions of the features they removed!

Jason knows how to have fun!

That’s nothing “floppy” about that. It’s a 3.5 floppy and it might interest you to know they, and the equipment to use them, are still being made.

Also, can’t he see there’s no drive?