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Whats the B Drive?

Back in the day, there would often be two floppy drives (since older computers often didn't have a hard drive at all). The secondary floppy (whether 3.5" or 5.25") would be B, usually.
 
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
 
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.
 
Originally posted by: FoBoT
this makes me feel old
but in another 10 years it will be posted "what was the A drive thing?"
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Less than that. A lot less. Hell, anyone still use floppies? Last time I used one was in college and I had 3 die in a row and finally said no more.
 
Yes in the days of using two floppies the A drive was the 1.44MB 3.5" media and the B drive was the 1.2MB 5.25" media. I ran out of drives once due to network mapped drives and a card reader so I made one of the USB drives B and it worked fine. Windows will still call it a 5 ¼" too!

Cheers!
 
Originally posted by: malak
Originally posted by: FoBoT
this makes me feel old
but in another 10 years it will be posted "what was the A drive thing?"
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Less than that. A lot less. Hell, anyone still use floppies? Last time I used one was in college and I had 3 die in a row and finally said no more.
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i used one last week
 
Originally posted by: malak
Originally posted by: FoBoT
this makes me feel old
but in another 10 years it will be posted "what was the A drive thing?"
Click to expand...

Less than that. A lot less. Hell, anyone still use floppies? Last time I used one was in college and I had 3 die in a row and finally said no more.
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I don't use them very often, but when I do, it's often a mission-critical type thing (loading scsi/raid drivers to do an install, flashing hardware, etc)

for the price, why not have one? not like I'd be doing anything else with that bay.
 
Originally posted by: malak
Originally posted by: FoBoT
this makes me feel old
but in another 10 years it will be posted "what was the A drive thing?"
Click to expand...

Less than that. A lot less. Hell, anyone still use floppies? Last time I used one was in college and I had 3 die in a row and finally said no more.
Click to expand...

Whats an 8-track
 
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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