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It's fine until you run out of disk space (lemmy.world)
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[–] istdaslol@feddit.de 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Imagine doing this on a dial-up 56K modem

[–] IHeartBadCode@kbin.social 19 points 11 months ago (3 children)

A:\SPICYMEMES\MODEMSOUND.WAV

[–] Late2TheParty@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Bwa-hahahahhah "A:" 🤣

[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

bro is still using floppies

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 11 months ago

all the cool kids use iomega

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months 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.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

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

[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 11 months 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.