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| Ever Wondered Why C Is The Default Drive On Your Computer & Not A Or B? by liljboy(m): 12:59pm On Oct 28, 2016 |
If you are a geek from the early
generations of computer users, you'd
probably know the answer to the question.
But if you're not much of a computer
aficionado, this would have surely crossed
your mind once. Why is the default drive in
MS-Windows computers the C drive? The
drives beyond that one are labelled D , E ,
and so on. If you plug in USB drives, they
get F and G . So yeah, what about A and B ?
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| Re: Ever Wondered Why C Is The Default Drive On Your Computer & Not A Or B? by liljboy(m): 1:00pm On Oct 28, 2016 |
Let us get to the answer now. See, when
the earliest computers were developed, they
didn't usually come with massive internal
storage devices. Instead they had a floppy
disk drive. And that drive was initially called
A. Floppy Disks came in two sizes, 5 1/4" and
3 1/2". So the computers that had drives for
both kinds of floppies had drives labelled
both A and B .
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| Re: Ever Wondered Why C Is The Default Drive On Your Computer & Not A Or B? by liljboy(m): 1:01pm On Oct 28, 2016 |
It was only in the late 1980s that hard
drives became a standard. And so they were
logically labelled C . And these hard drives
were used to store the operating systems of
the computers. Gradually, floppy disks
became obsolete and computers started
doing away with floppy drives. The A and B
drives were phased out and C remained.
Of course, these rules are not set in stone,
and if you are a stickler for proper order
and want your drives labelled beginning
with an A, you can easily do so, if you
have the administrative rights.
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| Re: Ever Wondered Why C Is The Default Drive On Your Computer & Not A Or B? by stag: 10:55pm On Oct 29, 2016 |
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