In Cecil’s 1995 column on the Swiss Army Knife, he said:
Boy, he didn’t know the half of it! From the Victorinox Web site:
Whee! A USB-enabled pocketknife with 2GB of memory!
MacGyver would be so proud.
That is awesome. My son will want one of these.
Great; but that can’t happen now because they won’t let you carry anything sharp or useful onto an airplane. Good luck performing a tracheotomy with a plastic spoon.
Which model Victorinox is, or most closely approximates, the army-issue knife?
I’m guessing the Soldier.
…and people still will not believe in God…what more proof do you need???
Heck, I’m 116 years old and I want one! No, I want 2!!
Two gigs of memory? Damn, mine’s only got a half a gig. I feel so obsolete.
That would be right. However the knife might change slightly in 2008.
An article describing the new knife says it will have a phillips screwdriver and a saw, plus some way to lock the knife in the open position. The tradition will still be maintained that only officers will have the corkscrew.
McGyver wouldn’t want a USB drive. MacGyver would want the Giant Knife - 87 tools and 141 functions!
So mine is now a ‘collectible’?
Are the ‘issue’ knives different in any way? (Physically or markings?)
Alas. Je ne parle pas français… 
Am I the only one, of the set who actually uses tools almost daily, who’s tried to use one of these things? Functionally, they’re junk. The new generation Leatherman, with the blade lock, is far superior. I well remember back in the day trying to drive a screw with one of those SAKs. I usually put it away and used a dime.
Okay, the tooth pick was handy, I guess.
Junkjunkjunk.
Peace,
mangeorge
Leatherman scissors are useless movie props. Give me my SAK any day. I once rebuilt my carburetor with just a SAK and a pair of pliers.
Does using the bottle opener a couple times a night count as using tools almost daily?
I find the leatherman tools a bit bulky to carry around - I don’t have a SAK any more though - I have one of these and one of these on my key ring (that does entail a bit of function redundancy, as both tools have screwdriver functions) - if I need anything more serious than that, I get the toolbox (or a fixed blade knife)
Scissors? I’m talking pliers, screwdrivers, file, blade and such. Tools!
I have the micro-plus too. It’s the one I carry around and it serves in 99% of what little work I do any more. My big leatherman stays in my drawer. Nifty little tool.
Dunno; I’ve driven plenty of screws with a SAK. In my experience, the Victorinox knives are better-built than the Wenger ones. I’ve had a SAK in my pocket since the late 1970’s, and get some use out of it about every day. (Even got me laid once, sort of. Remarkable how many people bring wine to a camping event and don’t have a corkscrew.)
The main thing I use on my SAK is the tiny pair of scissors. I never would have thought they would come into play so often.
RR
I have a victorinox, although not classical SAK but one of larger ones with blade lock. I think it’s atlas.
It’s totally functional. I used every single option available - saw, pliers, screwdrivers, awl, corkscrew etc., often for things that it was not intended to (like opening deformed cans using main blade or unscrewing rusted mutters with pliers) - and it always performed great. It’s actually was my main tool when I was doing remodeling in my home, because it was always at hand so I don’t need to go for, say, phillips screwdriver every time I needed one. I still use it on a daily basis and I do use tools.