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In the olden days, the A drive was exactly as it is now. For floppy discs where the magnetic surface isn't exposed at all.
The B drive, back then, was for a bigger sized disc where part of it was exposed.
Today's 3.25 inch disc and yesteryear's 5.25 inch effort
The B drive, back then, was for a bigger sized disc where part of it was exposed.
Today's 3.25 inch disc and yesteryear's 5.25 inch effort
What a lot of nonsense stevie21. As Skids says, B was reserved for a second drive - regardless of type. When no second drive was fitted, you could still use it as it behaved as a virtual drive. For example, in DOS you could type "Copy A: B:" and it would copy the contents of the disk in A: to a buffer, then ask you to insert a disk in drive B:, at which point you would replace the disk with a blank to be used as the destination disk.
Snoopz, believe it or not early PCs had NO hard disk.
All information was stored on floppy disks, the operating system, applications, user data.
So we needed 2 floppy disks, and as others have said A was the first floppy disk, B was the second floppy disk.
When hard drives came C then became the hard drive which is why even today the first hard drive is always C.
All information was stored on floppy disks, the operating system, applications, user data.
So we needed 2 floppy disks, and as others have said A was the first floppy disk, B was the second floppy disk.
When hard drives came C then became the hard drive which is why even today the first hard drive is always C.
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