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re: Drive Letter for floppy?
Sunday, January 25, 2004 at 7:29 pm
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Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE (4310 messages posted)


B: is a valid drive letter assignment for a floppy disk drive.

In the very early days of PCs, most did not have hard disk drive storage due to the 
extreme expense involved.  Instead, some used tapes (literally--you would hook up 
an audio cassette recorder to the computer and that would be "mass storage), while 
others (notably the original IBM PC and of course others) would use two 5-¼" floppy 
drives.  Typically, one floppy would be used to load the program itself, and the 
other would be sued to store the generated data.

[PS-My apologies if you're a computer old-timer and already knew this.]

Have you checked the Toshiba support pages---maybe this is expected behavior?



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Drive Letter for floppy? (johnnyzero: Sunday, January 25, 2004 at 7:21 pm)

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-Drive Letter for floppy? (johnnyzero: Sun, Jan 25, 2004, 7:21 pm)
*re: Drive Letter for floppy? (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Sun, Jan 25, 2004, 7:29 pm)
-re: Drive Letter for floppy? (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Sun, Jan 25, 2004, 7:43 pm)
*re: Drive Letter for floppy? (johnnyzero: Sun, Jan 25, 2004, 8:10 pm)
-re: Drive Letter for floppy? (johnnyzero: Sun, Jan 25, 2004, 8:27 pm)
*re: Drive Letter for floppy? (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Sun, Jan 25, 2004, 8:39 pm)
-re: Drive Letter for floppy? (Adam Bradley: Sun, Jan 25, 2004, 8:41 pm)
*re: Drive Letter for floppy? (Philip Burton: Mon, Mar 15, 2004, 9:13 am)
*re: Drive Letter for floppy? (NetBoy: Wed, Apr 28, 2004, 4:21 am)
-re: Drive Letter for floppy? (NetBoy: Wed, Apr 28, 2004, 4:33 am)
-re: Drive Letter for floppy? (Bill Reed: Sun, Jul 3, 2005, 6:53 pm)
-re: Drive Letter for floppy? (NetBoy: Sun, Jul 3, 2005, 7:51 pm)
*re: Drive Letter for floppy? (alex rooney: Tue, Jul 12, 2005, 3:06 am)
-re: Drive Letter for floppy? (deyanr: Sun, Nov 13, 2005, 4:44 am)
-re: Drive Letter for floppy? (gundo: Wed, Apr 5, 2006, 1:30 am)
*re: Drive Letter for floppy? (Adrian: Tue, Jul 24, 2007, 8:03 pm)
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