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If nobody uses floppy drives anymore, why not use A: and B: drives again?Įven though few people still even have floppy drives, C:\ has always been the traditional installation drive of Windows. By 1996 CDs completely took over and the only people still using floppys were power users and system admins ( however I still have good ole Ghost on mine!). Thanks mostly to IBM, by the early 90’s the new standard became 3½-inch disks that could hold a sizeable 1.44MB! But, by the time the 90’s rolled around the CD was already gaining popularity in the music industry, and computer geeks caught on and started using it to store data as well. Yeah not much, but at the time it was a big deal! As years passed technology improved and the standard moved down 5¼-inch size disks that could hold more especially if you notched the side of the disk so you could flip it over!
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To put that into perspective, 175KB is about 10 seconds of your favorite MP3 song. Floppy drives started out large in size as well, the first ones available in 1971 were a whopping 8 inches in diameter with a total storage capacity of 175KB.
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The floppy disk is the predecessor of the CD, and it sure didn’t hold much. As you know as each new media format was released, we are able to fit more information onto each one. Well, floppy drives are necessary to read our floppy disks of course! Before Blu-Ray there was the DVD (Digital Video Disc) there before that there was the CD ( Compact Disc). This is because of drive incompatibility, there wasn’t a set standard at the time and so you had to be prepared to read media that was formatted differently. It was common to have two drives, hence why A & B are reserved. The reason you might not have heard of these drives is because all big computer fabricators generally stopped including them on personal computers in 2003, with the earlier being Apple who began disregarding the drives in 1998 on their iMac computers. Some computers may still have these, but back in the day, the A: and B: drive were reserved for use as Floppy Disk Drives. What was in the A & B drive and what happened to them?