Drive letters?
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that's the save icon
was A: reserved for save icons?? makes no sense
Feels like an eternity that I last used single-letter drive names ...
I always found it strange how windows treated drives. Who decided an alphabetical letter should be another mounted system? And also shares having the same naming. So strange...
I still have my tape drive.
I'm glad my punch tape drive is long gone. We used a paper punch tape reel to reel on a garden cart to wheel around the shop floor to load CNC programs onto CNC mills. Often with hand written gcode. Gods, I hated that thing. Floppies were far faster and far more reliable.
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..."A long time."
I set my memory card reader to the letter A, but I also have my old Lightscribe DVD drive (and looking for one optical drive for my ThinkPad), and have a few floppy drives put away for potential hobby projects.
Windows storage guide, from A to ZZ
I think I still have a few 3 1/2" and even 5 1/4" around here somewhere. I even had a 120mb Superdisk drive. I bought it used and got 4 or 5 years of use from it. It could hold 1000's of CNC programs and even CAD drawings.
***Great Googlely Moogely! You can still get Super disks on eBay!