I set my memory card reader to the letter A, but I also have my old Lightscribe DVD drive (and looking for one optical drive for my ThinkPad), and have a few floppy drives put away for potential hobby projects.
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My disk was a floppy until you walked by. Now it's solid state.
Oh yeah, that reminds me of that time SO's PC had C: for the OS and D: for data and wanted to format it, so i booted it to DOS (i think it was still win 98 SE) and happily formatted C: only to discover that in DOS i was actually formatting D:... fun times.
I think I still have a few 3 1/2" and even 5 1/4" around here somewhere. I even had a 120mb Superdisk drive. I bought it used and got 4 or 5 years of use from it. It could hold 1000's of CNC programs and even CAD drawings.
***Great Googlely Moogely! You can still get Super disks on eBay!
Sorry, been busy
Stuff to do.
Brrrrr ck
Cachk-cachk
Nrrrrrrrrrr
Yeah i can hear that drive letter 35 years after the fact
i still kinda like the big floppy design. It just looks like it means business.
I miss floppies. Putting them in and taking them out was so satisfying. Remember when you had to install stuff with like a hundred of them? The ker-chicks and that smooth sliding feel as the sheath slid open....
Theme Park came on 8 floppies, was my first game.
Ahhh yes. Sitting there drinking tea and flippin' floppies for half an hour or even longer. And there was always that one that would read well.
I had reason to use an optical drive lately, and even that was a blast from the past. Hitting eject, watching the light blink and then the drawer opens. USB-based storage just isn't the same.
I still have my tape drive.
I'm glad my punch tape drive is long gone. We used a paper punch tape reel to reel on a garden cart to wheel around the shop floor to load CNC programs onto CNC mills. Often with hand written gcode. Gods, I hated that thing. Floppies were far faster and far more reliable.
Of course I know him, he's me!
/dev/sda1
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%\GitHub to mount my local repos as drive A for shorter paths.
Neat.
My first PC is still in storage. It had
- A: 3.5 floppy
- B: 5.25 floppy
- C: HDD
- D: CD-RW
- E: ZIP drive
I have a 5.25 floppy in my shop just as a reminder of the past. I wonder what I burned on it decades ago it all the time.
You burned floppy discs?
Copied. Burned. The terminology changed a lot and I got old.
On the lower density 5.25s, you can actually write the data by hand using a wood burning kit.
ZIP drives were a game changer at the time. We had no other (fast) way to move larger amounts of data in one shot without compressing / archiving over multiple disks.
Last year I dug a couple hundred zip disks out of my parents attic and bought an old zip drive off eBay so I could read them. They all still worked. My old data got moved to the cloud and the zip discs + drive went back to the attic. Perhaps in another 20 years I'll dig it out again if we still have USB ports on our systems haha.
Anyways, the USB thumb drive business killed iomega overnight.
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