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Hypolite Petovan friendica (via ActivityPub)

I'm old enough to remember what ABCD means!

A: Floppy Drive
B: Second Floppy Drive for floppy-to-floppy copy
C: Hard Drive
D: Optical Drive

In my time disk space was smaller than the addressing system which means partitions weren't warranted, whippersnapper!

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Gil Hova mastodon (AP)

I had a computer with a B: drive as a kid. Living large!

(At least, I remember I do, but memory can be a weird thing...)

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Deeb mastodon (AP)
I used to wonder why most computers didnโ€™t have a โ€œB:/โ€œ
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Stefano J. Attardi mastodon (AP)
D: Larger second drive you bought after you ran out of space on the first one
E: CD-ROM burner
F: DVD reader
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Georgimus Prime mastodon (AP)
@steadicat Drive P: for external 2x-4x CD Writer, connected to the printer port via EPST Parallel/SCSI adapter. At this point I had a 4.3GB Seagate with 3 partitions, 1GB C: for Windows, 2GB D: for programs and the rest for my data in E:
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Hypolite Petovan friendica (via ActivityPub)
@Stefano J. Attardi Whoa there, son, you can write on CD-ROM ??? ๐Ÿ‘ด
positron ๐Ÿ–– mastodon (AP)
@hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.cmy BBS was more like...
D: Larger but slower hard drive used for mass storage
E: RAM Drive to fast load a few commonly accessed tools
F-K: 6 disc, 1x speed CD Changer baby!
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Hypolite Petovan friendica (via ActivityPub)
@positron ๐Ÿ–– Are you from the future???
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positron ๐Ÿ–– mastodon (AP)
the first time I ever burned a CD people sure thought I was!
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Disk space is again smaller than the addressing system these days, and partitions are still handy! But these days it's often more about various filesystem support.
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silverwizard friendica (via ActivityPub)

I also remember my first 6GB HDD, it was so big!

*ducks*

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Hypolite Petovan friendica (via ActivityPub)
@silverwizard I remember my first 20MB HDD, I didnโ€™t have to change cassette to run a different program! ๐Ÿ‘ด
silverwizard friendica (via ActivityPub)
To be clear - the first computer I used was a 286 running some sort of Unix, but I didn't get my own for another decade
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Hypolite Petovan friendica (via ActivityPub)
@silverwizard Alright, then it wasn't "my" 20MD HDD either.
binchicken mastodon (AP)

lawd that takes me back. the first one from my childhood was

a: 3ยฝ"
b: 5ยผ"
c: hard-drive

and the day we got an optical drive was magical

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Hypolite Petovan friendica (via ActivityPub)
@binchicken And thatโ€™s how computers were intended to be!
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@KitRedgrave I had a computer with a B: drive that went to nothing. Was never quite sure why. The A: drive worked fine, as did C: and D:, but B: went nowhere.
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Tattooed_Mummy mastodon (AP)
drives... ๐Ÿ˜‚... laughs in tape player
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Hypolite Petovan friendica (via ActivityPub)
@Tattooed Mummy Now those were the days! โ€œI/O Errorโ€, guess I have to rewind again!
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Lars Lehtonen mastodon (AP)
Usually one floppy would be 3.5 and the other would be 5 1/4.
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laxsill akkoma (AP)
I must be in between. I never knew B, but the rest of them.
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Hypolite Petovan friendica (via ActivityPub)
@laxsill B was either for the other floppy format (3ยฝ" or 5ยผ") or to illegally distribute software, arrhh! ๐Ÿดโ€โ˜ ๏ธ
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laxsill akkoma (AP)
I have huge respect for people who illegally distributed software and while I think my parents friends have me a lot of pirated floppies, when I started I went straight to broadband (Kazaa, DC++, Limewire)
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D: being the optical drive was so hard for me to get used to (and i'm still not) because i'd learned to keep my data in a separate hard drive from my windows install long before we ever got one of those fancy schmancy "CD-ROM drives"

by the time i was regularly using a windows machine that only had one hard drive again optical drives were falling out of use...

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I didn't remember that I did remember that. ๐Ÿคฃ
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Hypolite Petovan friendica (via ActivityPub)
@Jonathan Lamothe Looks like it's time for your tea, grandpa!