Davey Brain wrote:
> Ray Davison wrote:
> 
>>I asked a sales person at Fry's if I could tell from the outside of 
>>the box if a MB had support for A: and B:.  He looked at the outside 
>>of the box, opened the box and fumbled with the manual, and told me 
>>there never was a B: in a PC.
>>
>>Ray
> 
> 
> Ray,
> Did you ask him the logical questions, "Then why did they skip the drive 
> letter 'B' and make 'C' the first hard drive partition letter? What was 
> the letter 'B' used for on a PC?" How old was the sales person? I'd 
> assume under 25? Or was that their IQ? ;)

Actually he was probably under 20.  When I insisted that all the MBs I 
had seen until this one had A: and B: he said "yea, OK" and turned and 
walked away.
> 
> At least they haven't totally eliminated floppy support on most systems 
> yet. Call me old fashioned and stubborn but I will have floppies on my 
> system until they can no longer run. Even when most all else fails I can 
> still boot floppies to make repairs. I even have a 5 1/4 drive B on my 
> main system. It is handy to copy old software and to play with disks 
> between emulators and real vintage systems (the TI-99 drive was 
> compatible with a PC if the PC controller can do single density)

Two floppies are also integral to my recovery and maintenance program. 
  I have a full tower box left over from a decade ago that has two 
3.5, two 5.25 and two plugin HDDs and just runs DOS.  It was last 
active as my storage box and ran W4.  I have kept it just in case.

Ray



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