Why is it always the C:\ drive, not the A:\ drive?

[ubersonic]

I believe this is appropriate (even more so as the game came on floppy )

 

[pitchfork]

Those of us with little money used the hole punch method to turn double density floppies into high density. An overclocked floppy as it were

Just googled this, that's awesome.

 

[Raumarik]

Those of us with little money used the hole punch method to turn double density floppies into high density. An overclocked floppy as it were

Ever better was being an expert at reinserting the daft little spring so the slider would work again.

Proper I.T. hardware "specialists" know what I mean

 

[feriso]

Wow. what a question - makes me feel old now - I remember the novelty of the B: drive - its was so WOW! at the time - that and the massive 40MB h/d

 

[djkav]

Ever better was being an expert at reinserting the daft little spring so the slider would work again.

Proper I.T. hardware "specialists" know what I mean

Screw that. I just removed that metal cover. It just got in the way

 

[Deleted member 77746]

I had a floppy once.

 

[joey1211]

http://www.howtogeek.com/122891/what-are-the-windows-a-and-b-drives-used-for/

 

[bledd]

I map my backup drive as B

Easy to remember!

 

[Duke]

Kids these days! Even I remember spending a good chunk of my early pc days playing with floppy disks and I'm only 24

All about the tape (before PC though - BBC Electron & C64 ).

 

[RickyM3]

Ah the good old days and I'm still in my twenties

Our first home PC had an A (3.5inch) and a B (5.25inch), I felt lucky at the time

And I remember loading DOOM, thought it was fantastic at the time

 

[Ricochet J]

Op must be 13 or something. Only oldies know why the C is not the A drive.

 

[Phil2008]

I can remember when I had a floppy boot disk for my dos games, that have all the drivers and configurations for the memory, soundcard, cdrom and mouse

 

[SB118]

Who let children on the internet!

 

[c@tbyte]

Those of us with little money used the hole punch method to turn double density floppies into high density. An overclocked floppy as it were

I've still got one of those punches somewhere.

 

[KraniX]

I can remember when I had a floppy boot disk for my dos games, that have all the drivers and configurations for the memory, soundcard, cdrom and mouse

Oh the hours I spent trying to get some games to work, wasn't it the EMS or XMS memory or something which was always in short supply? I had a ton of different disks depending on what needed to be loaded.

Getting TIE Fighter working with a mouse, controller and sound was a challenge but was so worth it.

 

[Hagar]

Oh the hours I spent trying to get some games to work, wasn't it the EMS or XMS memory or something which was always in short supply? I had a ton of different disks depending on what needed to be loaded.

Getting TIE Fighter working with a mouse, controller and sound was a challenge but was so worth it.

extended memory above 1MB if you had it.

Two files you had to know backwards,

Config.sys and autoexec.bat

 

[PiKe]

Can't believe we are having to explain why A: and B: are reserved letters.

I feel old

 

[tom_e]

extended memory above 1MB if you had it.

Two files you had to know backwards,

Config.sys and autoexec.bat

Those 2 names take me back!

 

[mame]

Can't believe we are having to explain why A: and B: are reserved letters.

I feel old

I had a moment like that when there was a thread not so long ago by someone who had bought a Megadrive (I think) and was asking how you would go about tuning it in to a TV It sounded silly at first, but then when you think of Sky/Virgin, HDMI even freeview, I suppose there is a generation that just haven't done that.

 

[Richdog]

Awesome thread, 5 stars.