by | August 31, 2010 · 7:34 am

The Littlest Big Floppy Disk

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13 Responses to The Littlest Big Floppy Disk

  1. Tam
    August 31, 2010 at 7:54 am

    Ah, the good old days. I can’t believe people still use diskettes when a memory stick costs next to nothing. Love your robot-speak.

  2. Adam (Craig's brother)
    August 31, 2010 at 9:58 am

    This post if very funny and very timely since Missy and I finally shredded all of our old floppy disks 2 weekends ago.

  3. M. Nicodemus
    August 31, 2010 at 10:28 am

    Ha! I was wondering the other day why people still buy diskettes; most new computers don’t even come with a floppy drive anymore! On that note, I recently came across an old program I wrote as a kid, on a cassette tape! Wow, that really made me nostalgic

  4. The Ryan with the Cupcake
    August 31, 2010 at 10:38 am

    I wonder if my parents still have a box of disks for games that we can no longer play.

    Remember when having a disc in the drive was due to the limitations of your computer rather than game developers being annoying?

  5. john
    August 31, 2010 at 11:07 am

    HA! I have some diskettes, lord only knows what is on them.

  6. Craig
    August 31, 2010 at 11:14 am

    I had Clue and Duke Nukem on diskette. Those were the days…

  7. M. Nicodemus
    August 31, 2010 at 11:37 am

    Zork, now that was a classic! Hmm… Never noticed before that Zork rhymes with dork; coincidence?

    Cupcake: I finally threw out all my old games-on-disk like Kings Quest (and every other early Sierra game), Load Runner, Leisure Suit Larry, and on, and on, and on… It was sad to let them go, but I realized that I would never play them again and I most likely would not have the hardware to run them on in the future anyway.

  8. Mel
    August 31, 2010 at 12:45 pm

    I’m with Tam on the Robotspeak. I got my nephew a t-shirt for Xmoose that says “I thought the future would have more beep boop sounds.”

  9. Craig
    August 31, 2010 at 12:50 pm

    Mel: That shirt is genius.

  10. Michelle M.
    August 31, 2010 at 6:47 pm

    I guess they have another use (besides being great robot coasters).
    http://gizmodo.com/5625989/ladies-please-dont-rely-on-a-floppy-disk-for-self+defense

  11. Chris D.
    August 31, 2010 at 11:41 pm

    I remember in elementary school the Apple II computers at school used 5 1/4″ floppy disks. Some programs actually required that the disk be flipped at certain times.

    Cute comic, Craig, was this drawn on the iPad?

  12. The Ryan with the Cupcake
    August 31, 2010 at 11:53 pm

    Chris: I’m trying to remember where on the Oregon Trail you had to flip the disk.

  13. josh
    September 1, 2010 at 10:37 pm

    I MISS FLOPPY DISCS! When we had COMPUTER CLASS in elementary school, we used to insert those square frisbeez into the computers and play “Mario Teachez Typing,” “Oregon Trail” & some other game that was all about setting up Ruby Goldenberg contraptionz! FUN!