Comment by urbandw311er

Comment by urbandw311er 3 days ago

Oh bless you and your youngsterness. A and B, by convention, were reserved for floppy drives and C was typically the first hard drive.

keitmo 3 days ago

On systems with a single floppy, drives A: and B: were two logical drives mapped to the same physical drive. This enabled you to (tediously) copy files from one diskette to another.

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dmurray 3 days ago

I don't recall this, and I do recall running something like "diskcopy A: A:" to do that operation.

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- pxx 3 days ago
  
  phantom drive B is explicitly mentioned in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_letter_assignment#Order_...
  the linked source checks out. diskcopy will also do this for you if you give it source = dest.
  
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HPsquared 3 days ago

Hard drives were a luxury.

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prerok 3 days ago

While original IBM PCs indeed may not have had HDDs, it did become a standard for PC XT, as early as 1983. Only the cheapest version were without a HDD by the end of the 1980s.

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- actionfromafar 3 days ago
  
  Many clones came without a HDD.
  
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  prerok 3 days ago
  
  Sure, I can imagine that.
  My first contact with PCs was in 1988 and they all had HDDs and were definitely not "IBM PC" but clones. That said, that's just my experience so YMMV.
  
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- layer8 3 days ago
  
  By the end of the 1980s, a lot of years had passed, and you’d buy an AT instead of an XT.
  
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nopechief 3 days ago

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