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Whats the B Drive?

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Wow, that makes me feel old!

It is almost scary that now there are computer users that never used a "B" floppy drive or seen a 5.25" floppy disk.
 
Originally posted by: Sukhoi
Nothing can beat playing Oregon Trail in elementary school on Apple IIe's.
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Oh yeah. Danm things didnt even have a HDD.

When I came to College I didnt bring any floppy disks. I just use my USB Jump Drive on my keychain, or put it on the network.
 
Originally posted by: Sukhoi
Nothing can beat playing Oregon Trail in elementary school on Apple IIe's.
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Pen and paper Oregon trail > Oregon Trail 1.0

Now there's like Oregon Trail 7 or something, and it's on windows too!
 
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Originally posted by: Amol
in my schools journalism lab, the A: is for floppies and the B: is for the zip drives . . . so KIND OF like the two floppy thing
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WTF? All the zips I've ever seen are on D with the rest of the real removable media. Someone freaking manually assigned drive letters? What a filthy waste.
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uh, yeah, ever heard of config.sys?
 
Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Originally posted by: Amol
in my schools journalism lab, the A: is for floppies and the B: is for the zip drives . . . so KIND OF like the two floppy thing
Click to expand...

WTF? All the zips I've ever seen are on D with the rest of the real removable media. Someone freaking manually assigned drive letters? What a filthy waste.
Click to expand...

uh, yeah, ever heard of config.sys?
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d00d that's sooo Windows 95.
LIVE IN THE NOW!
 
Originally posted by: Beau
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Originally posted by: Amol
in my schools journalism lab, the A: is for floppies and the B: is for the zip drives . . . so KIND OF like the two floppy thing
Click to expand...

WTF? All the zips I've ever seen are on D with the rest of the real removable media. Someone freaking manually assigned drive letters? What a filthy waste.
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No, it's a jumper setting on the ZIP drive.
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Someone CHANGED JUMPERS?! wtfbbq! Even bigger waste of time.
 
Anyone notice how fast zip drives failed? I remember how they were supposed to be a huge thing, but it seems as those CDs took the thunder.
 
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Originally posted by: Beau
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Originally posted by: Amol
in my schools journalism lab, the A: is for floppies and the B: is for the zip drives . . . so KIND OF like the two floppy thing
Click to expand...

WTF? All the zips I've ever seen are on D with the rest of the real removable media. Someone freaking manually assigned drive letters? What a filthy waste.
Click to expand...

No, it's a jumper setting on the ZIP drive.
Click to expand...

Someone CHANGED JUMPERS?! wtfbbq! Even bigger waste of time.
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It's the same jumper used to assign IDE slave/master.

If I still used IDE, I'd still assign s/m.
 
Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Originally posted by: Amol
in my schools journalism lab, the A: is for floppies and the B: is for the zip drives . . . so KIND OF like the two floppy thing
Click to expand...

WTF? All the zips I've ever seen are on D with the rest of the real removable media. Someone freaking manually assigned drive letters? What a filthy waste.
Click to expand...

uh, yeah, ever heard of config.sys?
Click to expand...

I vaguely remember it. Win9x and DOS. People still use those?
 
Originally posted by: aplefka
Anyone notice how fast zip drives failed? I remember how they were supposed to be a huge thing, but it seems as those CDs took the thunder.
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yeah, I still have one laying around in my basement.

the big problem with zip drives was the cost of media (something like $20/disk, IIRC) and the rate of drive failure (the infamous click of death). CDR/W's dropped in price in the late 90's, making optical storage a much better alternative. and now with popularity and inexpensiveness of thumb drives, there's really no point for their existance anymore.

I actually prefer my thumb drive over optical for a lot of things.
 
Originally posted by: Beau
Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Originally posted by: Amol
in my schools journalism lab, the A: is for floppies and the B: is for the zip drives . . . so KIND OF like the two floppy thing
Click to expand...

WTF? All the zips I've ever seen are on D with the rest of the real removable media. Someone freaking manually assigned drive letters? What a filthy waste.
Click to expand...

uh, yeah, ever heard of config.sys?
Click to expand...

d00d that's sooo Windows 95.
LIVE IN THE NOW!
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if you think that's windows 95 you were born yesterday
 
I'm only 17 but my first computer was a DOS beast with the monitor attached to the tower on some swivel base. I had some Pinball game where you could make your own custom board (move the flippers and objects), and Ms. Pac Man, of course on 5.25" floppies. I don't remember if it was B: or not, though, I'm guessing it was.
 
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