We leave drives A and B reserved in honor and remembrance of floppy disks. Think of it as reserving a famous sports player’s number. Those things could hold so much data that we still use a floppy disk as the icon for saving things today.
As an IT worker, there are people already in the workforce who have literally no clue what a “drive” is because they don’t use traditional computers anymore. My youngest brother is a freshman in college; I offered to get him a laptop before he left as a bday present and he told me no. Apparently it’s all about iPads now.
A new gen iPad with a keyboard is probably a more useful and higher spec-ed laptop than the MacBook I had in college 12 years ago so he might not be wrong there. Although I would never say no to a free laptop that I can use to install all the weirdest Linux distros I can find lmao
I remember installing Windows 3.1 from floppy and finding out the fourth disk out of six was corrupted and realizing I had just wasted a day since I had to go back to the library to copy them again.
You can also assign numbers (and I believe even entire strings with a custom kernel driver) but Explorer doesn’t recognise them, so only really useful if you’re desperate for more mount points and don’t just want to put them within other folders.
Or you just want to be silly and make your OneDrive the 1:\ drive!
On a Mac, Option+Shift+3 is screenshot. This is because back in 1985, Option+Shift+1 and 2 were reserved for ejecting the primary and secondary floppy drives.
We leave drives A and B reserved in honor and remembrance of floppy disks. Think of it as reserving a famous sports player’s number. Those things could hold so much data that we still use a floppy disk as the icon for saving things today.
When I saw this I realized there is a whole generation that will never know why there are no A or B drives.
As an IT worker, there are people already in the workforce who have literally no clue what a “drive” is because they don’t use traditional computers anymore. My youngest brother is a freshman in college; I offered to get him a laptop before he left as a bday present and he told me no. Apparently it’s all about iPads now.
A new gen iPad with a keyboard is probably a more useful and higher spec-ed laptop than the MacBook I had in college 12 years ago so he might not be wrong there. Although I would never say no to a free laptop that I can use to install all the weirdest Linux distros I can find lmao
I remember installing Photoshop from floppies.
I remember installing Windows 3.1 from floppy and finding out the fourth disk out of six was corrupted and realizing I had just wasted a day since I had to go back to the library to copy them again.
You can also assign numbers (and I believe even entire strings with a custom kernel driver) but Explorer doesn’t recognise them, so only really useful if you’re desperate for more mount points and don’t just want to put them within other folders.
Or you just want to be silly and make your OneDrive the 1:\ drive!
MacOS has something similar.
On a Mac, Option+Shift+3 is screenshot. This is because back in 1985, Option+Shift+1 and 2 were reserved for ejecting the primary and secondary floppy drives.