Man, this question makes me feel old as hell--I'm 40, btw. It reminds me of the time when my friend's daughter asked what the car window handle was for. I was like, it rolls the windows up and down. She thought it was a new thing. Wow.
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?
#102Senility poll: Did you know the answer to this question?
Partially. I am old enough to remember computers with one floppy drive (for old software, explaining the A:-position), but too young to have experienced the times when you needed two.
I'm from the time when A: meant 3.25" and B: meant 5.25", but you certainly didn't need a B:.
Re: What are the Windows A: and B: drives used for?
#103We're not very far away from "what is the blue 'Save' icon meant to be?" are we? Kind of amazing really. Girlfriend's nephews are 6 and 9, pretty tech savvy (there's a lot in the house), but they had no idea what the slots in the front of their grandfather's computer were (and why should they?!).
The way things are going we will probably not have any Save buttons at all soon.
It's used as Commit, and that will continue to be useful
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#104I feel old.
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#105Seeing this made me smile. I haven't seen an A drive for ages now. I dont know about the times before 1998 where most people have a nostalgic memory of these, but they used to self corrupt like crazy all you had to fear was the "Do you want to format Drive A?"
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#106Floppy DUO Imperial March: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHJOz_y9rZE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enZ4P7Azxys
Doctor Who on 8 floppies
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#107It's funny to talk about the 20 year old hackers who didn't ever have the experience of installing Word Perfect 5.x from 30-40 floppies, but let me tell you that those kids are going to feel just as old pretty soon. My daughter, who is about to turn one, is puzzled by why my Macbook Air doesn't do anything when she touches the screen. She doesn't recognize my dad's old Treo, which he gave her as a toy, as a phone, bu…
Sad that a 1 year old has "all her shows" to watch.
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Edit: I apologize for the rudeness of my comment. However, it is my understanding that the evidence available today points to things like TV being damaging to the development of the very young (1-3 years old)
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sad that a 1 year old has "all her shows" to watch.
[Non-valuable contribution, removed] Edit: I apologize for the rudeness of my comment. However, it is my understanding that the evidence available today points to things like TV being damaging to the development of the very young (1-3 years old)
Do you even have kids?
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#109Floppy DUO Imperial March: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHJOz_y9rZE
Especially appropriate for this article given that the top comment is "It's A:\Trap".
Re: What are the Windows A: and B: drives used for?
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
[Non-valuable contribution, removed] Edit: I apologize for the rudeness of my comment. However, it is my understanding that the evidence available today points to things like TV being damaging to the development of the very young (1-3 years old)
Do you even have kids?
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