Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 06, 2021

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    BE THIS GUY  over 3 years ago

    Mike learning how to do Christmas as a single Dad.

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    eromlig  over 3 years ago

    A 28.8 modem? BLAZING speed…

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    Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Deal for the ears. It’s all Mike can afford.

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    Dean  over 3 years ago

    Here we go again, another 100 comments about what someone had bought back in the day.

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    Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray  over 3 years ago

    Send that kid back to mom !

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    fuzzbucket Premium Member over 3 years ago

    How do Mike’s glasses stay on without a bridge or earpieces?

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    Susan00100  over 3 years ago

    I like Mike and Alex. It’s great to see WINNERS on this strip, for a change.

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    Algolei I  over 3 years ago

    “Ear piercings are really more of an Easter thing, honey.”

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    tonypezzano  over 3 years ago

    28.8 modem…. I remember being jealous of those.

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    gokar 4,la  over 3 years ago

    I miss the modem call up sounds ….at times.

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    Space_cat  over 3 years ago

    Looks like someone wants to open a computer museum!

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    Lawrence.S  over 3 years ago

    Shopping is easier when the intended recipient provides products specs.

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    Defective Premium Member over 3 years ago

    I remember when things were so simple… Ah, the good old days.

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    RonaldByrd  over 3 years ago

    Totally off-topic except to the extent that “Bloom County” is considered by some to be a “Doonesbury” ripoff: Does anyone remember a “Bloom County” ripoff whose main distinction was that instead of a penguin, it had two flamingos? Every now and then it’ll come to mind and each and every time I fail to remember the title. Anyone? Thanks. :-)

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Wait, did I just hear the girl do some horse trading there. She wants an expensive computer with all the bells and whistle, ..or, …perhaps, her ears pierced.

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    JohnTheFoole  over 3 years ago

    133 MHz? How quaint!

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    mizdurble  over 3 years ago

    Why are we reading about Christmas in April?

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    Gen.Flashman  over 3 years ago

    Why is he wearing a tie

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    alexius23  over 3 years ago

    In the words of Weird Al, “it’s all about the Pentiums”

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    summerdog  over 3 years ago

    She wasn’t like this in the old place. I blame living in Seattle.

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    GaryCooper  over 3 years ago

    28.8 modem? This was a very long time ago.

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    mourdac Premium Member over 3 years ago

    The good old days going hand-to-hand trying to free up an IRC to install another piece of equipment like a modem.

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    Kilrwat Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Ahhh the REAL ask emerges…

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    gantech  over 3 years ago

    Ah, so that’s the plan. The real objective was an ear piercing.

    I believe it’s referred to as ‘framing’.

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    Linguist  over 3 years ago

    Mike’s learning that kids grow up a lot faster than we want them to. My daughter, when she was about Alex’s age, was downright scarey!

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    txmystic  over 3 years ago

    Actually computer shopping in the ‘90s was quite fun…Dell’s original “build your own” website allowed one to highly customize their gear…

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    ChessPirate  over 3 years ago

    What kind and length of peripheral interface cable? ☺

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    Eric S   over 3 years ago

    those specs: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    that’s like trying to hook up a Commodore 64 to the internet at that time.

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    bilbrlsn  over 3 years ago

    Those were the days.

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    willie_mctell  over 3 years ago

    Should be a 56K modem. 28.8 was old school then.

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    Malcome1  over 3 years ago

    My first PC was a 386sx clocked at 8 mHz and 12 in turbo mode.

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    mordalo  over 3 years ago

    8MB SIMMs! How adorably archaic.

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    Ka`ōnōhi`ula`okahōkūmiomio`ehiku Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Brave new world, and such children in it.

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    RonaldByrd  over 3 years ago

    Before anyone points out that it’s illegal for a child Alex’s age to get her ears pierced — or, at least, such I presume to be the case — it’s also illegal for a child Earl’s age to get a tattoo or to be served alcohol, and yet…

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    jbruins84341  over 3 years ago

    A modem? This really is the 90’s!

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    STACEY MARSHALL Premium Member over 3 years ago

    How about a real mom for Christmas, instead of the fake one she had before?

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    bakana  over 3 years ago

    By this time, he was so befuddled, he didn’t even Notice that he’d given her permission to pierce her ears.

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    John W Kennedy Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Roughly equal to IBM’s top mainframe (System/360 Model 75) in 1966. On the other hand, roughly 1/200 the computing power of an Apple Watch.

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    LeslieAnn Premium Member over 3 years ago

    My first exposure to anything computer related was in the later 1950’s and early ‘60’s. My dad would bring home used computer paper, the large kind that was all connected in switchback folds. It was absolutely the best drawing paper. The most creative and fun ‘interface’ I’ve ever had with anything computer related. If memory serves me the computer filled a basement room at MURA. (anyone family with MURA?)

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    joethelionn  over 3 years ago

    Wonder how long it will take for her to get her “trendy” haircut that she will keep for…well until now. She still has those stupid late 90s issue rubber bands in her hair, right?

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