Where's the (B:) drive?

I know you all must think I'm a complete idiot with the questions I'm posting!

But seriously, just curious as to why computers have a C: Drive, an A: drive (for floppy's) and D:, E; etc. but they skipped the letter B:?

 

Ok...showing my age on this one. 8)

The B: drive designation was for the 5.25 floppy drive or a second 3.5 floppy drive. Yes, I know it's hard to believe, but we used to have PC's with a 3.5 floppy, a 5.25 floppy and then a whopping 20MB hard drive.

Be glad...very glad, that storage mediums have become much more advanced. I remember installing PageMaker "back then" which came on THIRTY floppy disks and it took forever! :shock:

 

Actually A: was always the floppy drive and B: was for a second floppy or if you didn't actually have more than one floppy drive you could use the designation B drive and copy from one floppy to another on one drive. Good ol' DOS!

 

You could also get two 5.25 drives before 3.5 disks were invented. I had one - my first PC, an IBM (8088 I think?) with two 5.25 drives, 256k RAM and a 10 meg hard drive. Very hot machine at the time. But that was in the days before the big fat GUIs.

 

TY, webbie, that's been a question of mine too. Felt too silly to ask DH about it :wink: .

Frogger

 

the only stupid question is the one not asked. :wink:

 

isn't the "B" drive located right next to the "any" key? :shock: :lol:

 

Have actually worked with 8 inch floppy's.

(insert joke here)

No really....they really existed.

 

Cassettes with my old Trash 80 and punch cards in college.

 

How about loading hard disk platters on an IBM System 36 and running Fortran code programs into it using punch cards! Ahhh, those were the daze! :wink: Nothing quite like the experience of writing a program and then drop the stack of punch cards on the way to the card reader! :shock:

 

good one!! :lol: