I don’t get it. What was the Q:?
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That’s where you put the save icon
💾
that’s the save icon
was A: reserved for save icons?? makes no sense
B is the real grandpa
I had A: and B: back in the days.
…“A long time.”
Of course I know him, he’s me!
/dev/sda1
I think the equivalent would be /dev/fd0 or something like that
I only use the PRDNL letters to drive
If you’re not setting emojis as your drive letters, you’re living in the past.
Incidentally, don’t open the 😳: drive
😈
When I’m on Windows, I use
subst A: %USERPROFILE%\GitHubto mount my local repos as drive A for shorter paths./dev/fd0
drive letters are cursed
I always found it strange how windows treated drives. Who decided an alphabetical letter should be another mounted system? And also shares having the same naming. So strange…
I just realized I had forgotten about drive letters altogether.
B:entered the chatB: entered before the pins 0xA-0xF twist.
Dudes with a
B:were 1337and/or well financially off.
In fairness, it was largely a convenience tax. Through my Atari ST, early PC, and (to a minimal degree) Amiga days, two or more drives just reduced the need for disk-swapping.
However… I’m not saying things were done on an industrial scale; but Xcopy with two drives was like trading a Vauxhall Nova for a Lambo Countach.
There was also a period where you needed 3.5 AND 5.25 drives to use off the shelf software.
Yeah, that’s around where I came in. Although I did have an old 386 with two 5.25” drives and no hard drive.
holy jesus, I thought I’d banished the actual floppy disk to the back of my mind, particularly the DS ones.
You know what, it’s easy to rag on the devs at the time, but they worked with what they had. Good on them.
