Conrad: I know. My first 'puter was a CP/M machine with no hard drive, just A: & B: floppies. At the time I bought that, a machine with a huge 10-meg hard drive (and one less floppy) was $800.00 more! I couldn't afford the hard disk model, and I thought I'd never need that much storage anyway. That first machine had a whopping 64-K of memory! Now both of my desktop machines have 64-meg and I really think I should have more. I guess my point was, once naming gets started, things stay the same. It would be impossible now to have computers name their boot hard disk A: in spite of how logical it would be now. dave *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 6/23/00 at 9:18 AM Conrad Hoffsommer wrote: >At 08:23 23-06-00 -0500, you wrote: >>-- snip -- >>Why is my boot disk drive the C: drive? >>David M. Porritt > > >That one's easy... In days of yore, before PCs had internal hard drives, >the two ports for floppy disks were called A: and B:. I still have a >couple 5 1/4" hard sector 90k [NOT a misprint: _k_ ] floppies laying around >that went in them. > > > >Conrad Hoffsommer - mailto:hoffsoco@luther.edu >-A rose by any other name would still attract aphids. David M. Porritt dporritt@swbell.net Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275
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