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

Although not strictly pc, the A drive brought about the end of those pesky 30 min loading times with cassettes (which would crash at 29 mins of course, after sitting watching the whole countdown), and had the best program ever, XCOPY :) I think 3.0 and 6.3!
 
BigBoy said:
You me and the rest of the forum members that joined before 2002 ;)

Still have a 3.5" drive and some disks knocking around just in case a bios flash on an old system is required :)
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I actually still have a floppy drive in one of my machines, but I did throw away all the disks a year or so ago when I was having a clearout.

I guess I ought to take the drive out one of these days, but it's only a spare machine and I'm far too busy errr ... not taking it out :D
 
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My first PC was:

a:\ 3.5" floppy drive
b:\ 5.25" floppy drive
c:\ 40mb hard drive

Those were the days. :D
 
i still have old windows 95pc setup so when i feel like it i can play some frontier elite II started that game years b4 on an amiga geting it to work right in dos was nightmare all them years ago now days can get it np's on win 7 but just don't feel right not sure what ill do if my sacred save disk ever fudges up lol
 
I am currently playing Quake on my Windows 7 64-bit. Oh the memories! I played countless hours of this on team deathmatch. Cost me a fortune with Wireplay.
 
BigBoy said:
You me and the rest of the forum members that joined before 2002 ;)

Still have a 3.5" drive and some disks knocking around just in case a bios flash on an old system is required :)
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I see your floppy and raise you a pair of LS-120 drives, one in my server & the other in the desktop :eek:
120mb floppies FTW.

-Leezer-
 
LizardKing said:
loading drivers into himem

I'm amazed i got anything working without the internet back then!
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not just that but some games wanted EMS and the others wanted XMS so you had to spend hours reconfiguring and rebooting to eek that last 10kb of the 640kb just to get the game to load :D

I Miss those days ;)
 
I still have an Elonex disk set for MSDos 5, I used Dos 5 and 6 on my first PC in 1991. I installed the elonex version on a Dell Laptop last year but ran into problems with the CD drive. I had fun with dosshell (used to be bang up to date before windows) and some old game demos on floppy from PC magazines.
 
Dimension said:
not just that but some games wanted EMS and the others wanted XMS so you had to spend hours reconfiguring and rebooting to eek that last 10kb of the 640kb just to get the game to load :D

I Miss those days ;)
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oh god yes and trying to get pcmcia drivers to preload on a dos boot disk just to install 95 via cd,
driver issues today pales in comparison
i dont miss those day :D
 
LOL. Kids of today.

Pretty sure there's still a copy of Amstrad DOS 4 in the parents loft!

Nostalgia pang for the days of trying to load device drivers for soundcard/CDROM etc into the HMA to get enough base memory...
 
Remember XTreeGold? The best file management software ever created. I needed something similar yesterday and stumbled across ZTree. Pity it isn't free, but the memories and functionality are worth the cost :)
 
Tute said:
My first PC was:

a:\ 3.5" floppy drive
b:\ 5.25" floppy drive
c:\ 40mb hard drive

Those were the days. :D
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Luxury!

a:\ 3.5" floppy
b:\ 5.25" floppy
c:\ 5.25" full height (i.e. 2x a normal CD drive) 20MB hard drive

BigBoy said:
Ha! I call your bluff; parallel port zip drive still in the box with three zip disks!
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I see your 3 zip disk and raise that to 10 (and a parallel port zip drive although I no longer have a machine with a parallel port on it!
 
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