You know you're getting old when you are shocked that someone asks what A: and B: are for, having never seen nor conceptualized that they were once floppy drive letters.
I'm 22 and remember floppy disks...
What are the Windows A: and B: drives used for?
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Re: What are the Windows A: and B: drives used for?
#12Yeah, thought this was some kind of joke question, and I'm only 29 ;)
I used 360k 5.25 floppies when I was a kid...
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#13Change happens. When I got my first real job in IT, one of our tasks was moving data from 8-inch to 5-inch floppy.
I hasten to add this was not - for the junior guys - real hard. Walk by the machine every so often, switch out the disks, hit [return], come back in a few hours.
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#14You know you're getting old when you are shocked that someone asks what A: and B: are for, having never seen nor conceptualized that they were once floppy drive letters.
Seriously!
I remember buying my first box of ten 3.5" floppies, which stored 1.44MB of data EACH, after years of using the older 360KB 5.25" disks, and marveling how much storage I was carrying in that little box...
Kids today, with their USB sticks and DVD drives and Internets. Grumble grumble. Get off my lawn!
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#15I used floppy disks up until I was around 8-10 years old. Around then my transition away from floppies into cds was pretty much at the point that I never used them again. I occasionally used floppies in primary school but not very often. I only ever used 3.5' however. I'm 20 now and I didn't remember that floppies were A: and B: so went into the article expecting some interesting explanation and then face-palmed when…
I used tapes until I was around 12 years old. Around then my transition away from tapes into floppies was pretty much at the point I never used them again (except for music, until CDs took over).
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#16Questions I've received from the newer guys getting into IT.
"Why did people have computers with no internet? What did you do with it?"
"What is a BBS?"
"How did you know what to type at a command line?"
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#17My A: is my physical Blu-Ray burner, and my B: is a virtual drive.
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#18Re: What are the Windows A: and B: drives used for?
#19Questions I've received from the newer guys getting into IT. "Why did people have computers with no internet? What did you do with it?" "What is a BBS?" "How did you know what to type at a command line?"
> "How did you know what to type at a command line?"
My son asks me this all the time. What he doesn't know is the amount of time I spent going over the contents of DOS's built-in help.
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#20I miss the 3.5" disks - those things had a really appealing appearance. The hard(ish) case and the sliding door gave them this sense that they would keep your data safe forever. Of course, I was just an impressionable kid, but whoever the designer was for those things - you left me with a lasting impression.