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[–] RedCarCastle@aussie.zone 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Why was it called C and not A or 1 or something

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Because the A: drive is your floppy drive

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago (4 children)

B: drive was the.other floppy drive!

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Trump's next executive order: all computers in the US must be sold with two floppy drives pre-installed.

[–] Undearius@lemmy.ca 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Renaming the C:\ drive to A:\ for America.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You know what? At that point, I think I might just be done with computers.

[–] RedCarCastle@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But where will you get your porn and misinformation?

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The woods.

[–] RedCarCastle@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months ago

I should of know, it's right there in the name haha

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Needed to run the OS from one.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 points 10 months ago

You can assign them manually but to this day, they are the last to get used when auto-mounting drives.

Unix rules

[–] RedCarCastle@aussie.zone 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is a floppy drive different form the floppy disk? Cause i remember floppy disks, vaguely.

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The drive runs the disk in my mind but I don't know the classroom right answer. My thought process on the matter is you insert the floppy disk into the floppy disk drive then your computer mounts it. Your hard drive runs your hard disk. Drives run disks. shrug

[–] RedCarCastle@aussie.zone 2 points 10 months ago

Yer that's what i had thought, same kinda thing as a cd drive, not that it's means much to anyone who isn't 100

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Cuz mass storage was a quirky extra, not something essential to your system, like your A: floppy drive was.

[–] RedCarCastle@aussie.zone 2 points 10 months ago

Well there you go, thankyou kind stranger

[–] amon@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How to tell if someone was born after 1998:

[–] RedCarCastle@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months ago

Lucky i was born in 92 and don't have feelings or I'd be offended lol