Drive letters

JugglingReferee

BillyMac wrote
JetMetFan is a nonconformist, a rebel, just like me. In fact, next time I post a situation, I'll have Team C as the offensive team, and Team D as the defensive team. Team A, and Team B, are getting boring. Same old. Same old. Yawn.

Remember drive letters? What frustrated me time and time again was understanding drive letter assignments.

People thought that if A: was the 3.5" drive in their old PC, that it had to be the A: drive in their new PC.

Yes, this is going way back. And yes, I've provided tech support for that long. lol

grunewar

JugglingReferee wrote
People thought that if A: was the 3.5" drive in their old PC, that it had to be the A: drive in their new PC.

Showing your age are we?

JugglingReferee

grunewar wrote
Showing your age are we?

Haha. I deliberately didn't mention the 5.25" drive.

Doh! Homerism.

Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

I am still trying to find my floppy. 😮

MTD, Sr.

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JugglingReferee wrote
Haha. I deliberately didn't mention the 5.25" drive.

That's nothing. Anyone remember punch cards?

grunewar

AremRed wrote
That's nothing. Anyone remember punch cards?

Yep! And scheduling computer time in the lab to run em.......

bob jenkins

AremRed wrote
That's nothing. Anyone remember punch cards?

Those were a modern marvel when they first came out.

BillyMac

JugglingReferee wrote
3.5" drive

Used them back when I was teaching. Still have my disks, and still have a 3.5 USB external drive if I ever want to go back in time.

JugglingReferee wrote
5.25" drive.

Used with the first computer I used for teaching. Appleworks (documents, data base, spread sheet).

AremRed wrote
Anyone remember punch cards?

grunewar wrote
Yep! And scheduling computer time in the lab to run em?

College. FORTRAN.

I go back even further. Ticker tape (punched tape) in high school. FOCAL.

Note (below) the teletype machine to the right.

Here are some of my high school teachers correcting our final exams:

Mark Padgett

Back in the early 60s, I had a HS physics teacher who thought it was ridiculous that people were going to make computers the size of buildings to do what a slide rule could do, since you could fit a slide rule in your pocket. 🙄

Welpe

AremRed wrote
That's nothing. Anyone remember punch cards?

No and I am pretty sure that you're younger than I am so how do you? 😉

I do however remember trying to find a blank 3.5" floppy to turn in my Comp Sci homework.

nopachunts

Welpe wrote
No and I am pretty sure that you're younger than I am so how do you? 😉

I do however remember trying to find a blank 3.5" floppy to turn in my Comp Sci homework.

Or working until 3 in the morning, finding one, and then having to format it before you could write to it.

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Welpe wrote
No and I am pretty sure that you're younger than I am so how do you? 😉

I do however remember trying to find a blank 3.5" floppy to turn in my Comp Sci homework.

You are 😉

I've heard too many war stores from my Dad about punch cards and how much time he spent working on a program for some EE class.

I grew up working on old computers with DOS and remember the 5.25" but 2x CD drives were all the rage.

nopachunts

I remember not only punch cards, but paper tape too.

Raymond

I was a supply systems analyst when I was in the Air Force. My first two bases I operated Univac 1050's.

Robert Goodman

I used keypunches & did batch programming in Fortran & COBOL. But have any of you ever worked with edge notched cards? (I never did any real work with them, but made some edge notched cards to play games or do tricks with, and I remember at least one library using them.)