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   hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 13:32:16 JST hypolite
   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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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 14:12:48 JST silverwizard

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     @hypolite I also remember my first 6GB HDD, it was so big!
     
     *ducks*
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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 21:55:30 JST hypolite

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     • Stefano J. Attardi
     @steadicat Whoa there, son, you can write on CD-ROM ??? ?
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     Stefano J. Attardi (steadicat@mas.town)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 21:55:31 JST Stefano J. Attardi

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     @hypolite

     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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     Gil Hova (gilhova@mastodon.world)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 21:58:26 JST Gil Hova

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     @hypolite 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 (deeb@techhub.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 22:00:01 JST Deeb

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     @hypolite I used to wonder why most computers didn’t have a “B:/“

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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 22:01:48 JST hypolite

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     • Stefano J. Attardi
     @georgeeyong @steadicat Witchcraft!
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     Georgimus Prime (georgeeyong@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 22:01:49 JST Georgimus Prime

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     • Stefano J. Attardi

     @steadicat @hypolite 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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     positron ? (positron@universeodon.com)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 22:03:25 JST positron ?

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     @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 (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 22:03:25 JST hypolite

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     • positron ?
     @positron Are you from the future???
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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 22:07:00 JST hypolite

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     • silverwizard
     @silverwizard I remember my first 20MB HDD, I didn’t have to change cassette to run a different program! ?
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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 22:12:49 JST hypolite

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     • Tattooed_Mummy
     @Tattooed_mummy Now those were the days! “I/O Error”, guess I have to rewind again!
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     Tattooed_Mummy (tattooed_mummy@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 22:12:50 JST Tattooed_Mummy

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     @hypolite drives... ?... laughs in tape player

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     Lars Lehtonen (alrs@lsngl.us)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 22:14:13 JST Lars Lehtonen

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     @hypolite Usually one floppy would be 3.5 and the other would be 5 1/4.

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     savedr (savedr@freeradical.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 22:16:00 JST savedr

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     @hypolite the nice thing about Apple II's with 2 drives was copying side 2 onto a new disk & keeping it loaded, so you didn't actually have to flip anything to continue :3

     Unless it just HAD to have side 2 in Drive A, in which case somebody needed a paddlin'

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     laxsill (laxsill@tut.amanda.systems)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 22:17:12 JST laxsill

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     @hypolite I must be in between. I never knew B, but the rest of them.
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 22:19:22 JST silverwizard

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     • silverwizard
     @hypolite To be clear - the first computer I used was a 286 runni g some sort of Unix, but I didn't get my own for another decade
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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 22:20:54 JST hypolite

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     • laxsill
     @laxsill B was either for the other floppy format (3½" or 5¼") or to illegally distribute software, arrhh! ?☠️
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     swashberry (swashberry@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 22:24:40 JST swashberry

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     @hypolite
     E is for thumb sticks and external drives. F, G, and H are for those same external drives when Windows randomly forgets about them and reassigns them for no reason.

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     montag (montag@friendica.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 22:26:17 JST montag

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     On C64: ?
     No. 1 - Datasette
     No. 8 - 1. Floppy Drive
     No. 9 - 2. Floppy Drive
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     laxsill (laxsill@tut.amanda.systems)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 22:53:02 JST laxsill

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     @hypolite 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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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Jan-2023 23:15:22 JST hypolite

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     • silverwizard
     @silverwizard Alright, then it wasn't "my" 20MD HDD either.
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     lapo (lapo@f.lapo.it)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jan-2023 08:29:12 JST lapo

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     • montag
     @montag LOAD "*", 8, 1
     I didn't remember that I did remember that. ?
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     positron ? (positron@universeodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jan-2023 11:32:38 JST positron ?

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     @hypolite the first time I ever burned a CD people sure thought I was!

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     me (me@social.jlamothe.net)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jan-2023 12:37:00 JST me

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     @hypolite I hear you about disks being too small to partition. Doesn't mean I didn't do it anyways. I remember getting a 1.7GB HDD in the mid 90s.
     
     "We'll never use that much space!"
     
     Also, Windows had this weird utility that let you create a compressed filesystem on a floppy, 'cause you gotta push that 1.44MB for all it's worth. I once tried nesting such a system within itself to double the compression, because compression is magic, right? Lost all my data in the process.
     
     Anyways... what were we talking about again?
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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jan-2023 12:38:42 JST hypolite

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     @me Looks like it's time for your tea, grandpa!