Bye bye Floppy Disks

Feb

2007

Even before the floppy finally flopped, I said bye bye to them when I got my first USB flash drive way back in college. It was a measly 64MB USB flash drive yet it can hold more data than a 1.44 MB floppy disk. And, my flash drive back then won’t prompt me to format it every time I put it to use with another PC. After seeing the I’m a PC and I’m a Mac advertisements, I suddenly thought of “I’m a floppy and I’m a flash drive” version of it.

Floppy: I’m a floppy
Flash drive: and I’m a flash drive

Floppy: I can hold word documents, spreadsheets
Flash drive: and I can hold more than that. Be it powerpoint slides, videos, MP3s. I’m fun.
Floppy: I’m all work
Flash drive: And I work hard and play hard

*****

Floppy: I’m a floppy
Flash drive: and I’m a flash drive

Floppy: I’m thin
Flash drive: and you can fit me in your hands with your fists closed

*****

Floppy: I’m a flop… *started to pause*
Flash drive: and I’m a flash drive
Flash drive: What’s happening to… Ohhh… reformat!
*Floppy started to puke data*
Floppy: What happened to me? Where am I? What time is it?

The End!

Just keep your floppy disks with your betamax tapes for the ultimate techie vintage collection.

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7 Responses to “Bye bye Floppy Disks”

jhay
February 3rd, 2007 at 10:39 am

On the contrary, floppies are alive and thriving over here in DLSU-D. Since the geniuses at our university ITC still bans the use of USB Flash drives in the library computers and instead, they sell us floppies instead!
jeff
February 5th, 2007 at 2:46 am

PC World (the US store, akin to our PC Express) just stopped stocking on floppies. actually im surprised it took them this long.
j4s0n
February 6th, 2007 at 12:37 am

Actually they made a good use of them last christmas… Christmas trees made from floppies. What a flop.
Euri
February 8th, 2007 at 3:08 pm

I started using USB when Disk drives were disabled from school’s PC to avoid things like “virus” (daw) and “free downloads” (as if they can prevent that!) ^.^
benj
February 9th, 2007 at 6:13 pm

hey karla, did you get my mail? I emailed you at your gmail account.
Nick
February 10th, 2007 at 6:20 am

I haven’t used a floppy in a long while. I’ve been using USB chip for 3 years now, and I wouldn’t go back if you held a gun to my head… ehmm… ok maybe… but, I’d have to think about it…

Karla, I miss the shoutbox… what happened to it?
Karla Redor
February 11th, 2007 at 3:05 am

hi everyone
sorry for the delayed reply
wasn’t able to access my blog in china
anyways,

@jhay
hmmm, i guess nag-uubos sila ng stock haha

@jeff
yeah i’m also surprised why it took a long time before they did that
it should have been done 3 years ago hehe

@j4son,
mind showing a picture of the flop christmas tree

@euri,
i guess they should use a better antivirus instead of banning the use of USB drives

@benj,
yes i got your email di lang ako makareply agad coz of a lot of things

@nick,
i removed the shoutbox. may nakukuha din kasi akong spam dun.

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Blogging live via Paranaque City since 2001. A 20-something graduate of DLSU-Manila. An engineer, amateur photographer, graphic and layout artist. Plays the guitar. Always thought to belong to a certain band. Almost got stuck in a mosh pit but rarely in the mush pit. Coffee lover. Former gig-a-holic. Asteeg!