"Do you have any spare floppies I could borrow?" Tod asked me 30 minutes ago.
"Uh. No. My computers don't even have floppy drives. Maybe there's an old one in the drawer?" I suggested.
"Already looked."
"Ah. Well, probably the conbini then."
So we walked over to the local 7-11. It's really amazing what you'll find there. Towards the end of the first aisle, between the ball point pens and the cell phone chargers, is the blank media section. MiniDiscs in single, 3- or 5- packs. CD-R and CD-RW. Video tapes of all sorts--VHS (three brands), Hi-8 and miniDV.
And, yes, floppy disks. A three pack of Maxell for 270 yen. Whew.
Ha! Cleaning out the office yesterday I ran across an entire BAG of floppies. I can't use them. Want me to ship them? They are brand new.
Yes, these days many PC goods are equiped in convenience stores.--BUT-- a certain kind of icecream was removed at my neighbor convenicences store, that my elder dauhgter loves. Probabbly the one couldn't caught on. The name is 'SOU'.
How weird - we had the same conversation today...my brother-in-law's girlfriend was looking at an iBook and said how come it doesnt' have a floppy drive, and the rest of us couldn't remember the last time we used a floppy. with CD-r's, FTP and email, I cant remember the last time i used one.
p.s. I'm sure you knew this, but on IE6 on the PC the new CSS buttons don't sit above the mediatinker banner.
Buy him a USB thumb drive. http://www.tekgear.com/product.cfm?sku=0024
I use floppies all the time... in fact I have about a million in my drawer at work. Stop by and I'll pass some to you ;-)