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[โ€“] IHeartBadCode@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A:\SPICYMEMES\MODEMSOUND.WAV

[โ€“] Late2TheParty@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bwa-hahahahhah "A:" ๐Ÿคฃ

[โ€“] darcy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

bro is still using floppies

[โ€“] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago

all the cool kids use iomega

[โ€“] Gork@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For those too young to remember, the A:\ drive was for the hard 3" floppy disks and B:\ drive was for the soft 5.25" floppy disks. The C:\ drive was for the new HDDs that came out, and for whatever reason the C:\ drive became the standard after that.

[โ€“] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

A was the first floppy drive and B the second floppy drive (in dos and cp/m). The type of drive was irrelevant.

[โ€“] dan@upvote.au 3 points 1 year ago

the A:\ drive was for the hard 3" floppy disks and B:\ drive was for the soft 5.25" floppy disks.

FWIW they were the other way around on my system. The order of A:\ vs B:\ depended on their order on the cable ("first" and "second"), not type.