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B drive
ljbirns:
I am curious as to why no drive is named B. Why is that ?
Lew
Josh:
B drive was used back in the days when people had multiple floppy disks. Back in those days, you would have both a 3.5 inch and a 5.25 inch floppy disk drive. Nowadays, its really not needed.
app103:
I had a B drive on my P3 for a short time.
I had borrowed my father's external USB Super Floppy drive.
That letter is reserved, just like A, for floppy drives.
ljbirns:
Ok That make sense. I remember we bought a computer a long time ago and we insisted that they add a 3.5 " drive to go along with the 5.25 floppy. I forgot that it was the B drive.
Thanks
I knew I could count on getting the right answer from the collective expertise of our forum
Lew
mouser:
even with one drive, my memory is you could use things like
"copy A:*.* B:"
and what would happen is, after it copied the files from the drive, you would be prompted to swap in a new floppy disk to complete the copy. So it was a useful kludge for copying things between floppies.
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