Are you on the side of Good or Evil? A topic about what you call A:

Started by Meowster, Thu 29/04/2004 18:53:31

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Dart

#20
Thu 29/04/2004 23:10:02
Quite simply, either "Drive A" or "Disk Drive".

I've never heard of someone calling it a "3 and a half inch floppy".

Ashen

#21
Thu 29/04/2004 23:48:53
'Floppy Drive'




Or, 'Dave', depending on the situation.
I know what you're thinking ... Don't think that.

Alia

#22
Thu 29/04/2004 23:57:36 Last Edit: Thu 29/04/2004 23:58:13 by Alia
I say A drive! But I can't really remember because I think I'm drunk whenever I'd mention such a thing. So it'd be like this:

Sober Person: Dude, what is the hole you are putting that, like, shard of plastic in?
Me: Yoursh, frikk.

No, no, it's floppy. Or..."hfshloppy." Oh, dash it all. Now I can't remember. Maybe I called it Molly or Phim.  But I don't KNOW! ....Ok, problem solved. I have named it OPHELIA.

Ashen

#23
Fri 30/04/2004 01:20:38
'Twas strange, 'twas passing strange,
'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful:

But I still prefer 'Dave'.
I know what you're thinking ... Don't think that.

Peter Thomas

#24
Fri 30/04/2004 01:40:18
I never talk about the drive, as such. I just talk about the disk itself.

For example, if a comp doesn't have an A drive, I don't say "hey - this comp doesn't have an A drive," I say "there's nowhere to put the damn freaking disc!"
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AGA: "Shush, FAG!"

modgeulator

#25
Fri 30/04/2004 02:47:24
I call my 3 and a half inch floppy "Mr Happy" and I call my A: drive "aye drive."

Evil

#26
Fri 30/04/2004 03:07:23
Floppy drive. But I have a friend who's named everything in his pc. His case is Richard, and hard drive is Shela, I think his processer is Anthony. Dont remeber anything else.

Gilbert

#27
Fri 30/04/2004 03:18:36
I call it A-mi...










Heh just kidding, I just call them floppy drives (Yeah I have a B-mi!)

Rave

#28
Fri 30/04/2004 03:38:24 Last Edit: Fri 30/04/2004 03:39:39 by Rave
QuoteI don't have one....it crapped out a couple years ago, but I never used it anyway....

I always called it the "Disk Drive"...

I call it a Disk Drive I guess, but I also don't say it outloud very often. Only to the voices in my head.

"Hey Shelly, I see your back from vacation. Did you see any nice A drives in florida?"

"Hi Tom! How are the kids and your floppy drive doing?"

You don't really use it in daily conversation unless your a comp anylas or programmer.   Anyway, I don't have a DISK DRIVE on my comp either because its a laptop and well......I had a choice between a CD/DVD drive and a disk drive and.....well.......the battery for this thing needs to go SOMEWHERE. :P (in case the cord unplugs by accident and such)

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Pesty

#29
Fri 30/04/2004 05:07:25
ACHTUNG FRANZ: Enjoy it with copper wine!

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remixor

#30
Fri 30/04/2004 08:21:43
I honestly never hear anyone (much less bandwagons) call it a "three and a half inch floppy drive".  I personally call it a floppy drive, and yeah I know 3.5 inch disks aren't floppy.  I still have a bunch of old games on those five and a quarters...
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Gilbert

#31
Fri 30/04/2004 08:26:55 Last Edit: Fri 30/04/2004 08:27:25 by Gilbot V7000a
Actually  I do call it  "three and a half inch floppy drive" sometimes, but as I speak Chinese, the equivalent term in Chinese is  FAR LESS clumpsy than speaking it in English.

Stickieee

#32
Fri 30/04/2004 08:44:57
I call the drive itself /dev/fd0 or fd0 for short. It's a unix thing, even the hardware can be accessed as a file. And that's a good thing. Similarly I call my hard drives and partitions hda, hda0, hdb1, hdc etcetera.

The things you put inside /dev/fd0 are called "korppu" in Finnish, and I have no clue whatsoever what's that supposed to mean.
EXPLOSION

SSH

#33
Fri 30/04/2004 09:10:14
Damn, Stickiee stole my UNIX nerdism I was going to make...

I remember the 3 inch Amstrad disc. No halves there. Meant  that they were 10 times as expensive, though becuase Amstrads were the only ones that used them (apart from some MSXs, I think). Now, I also used Sinclair Microdrives in my time. And punched cards and mercury delay lines and core store....

* SSH  goes into computer nostalgia trance

No-one has suggested calling them 88.9mm drives, though. Makes them sound liek some kind of huga assault weapon. "I've got an Uzi 88.9mm"
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Gilbert

#34
Fri 30/04/2004 09:11:23
* Gilbot V7000a now remembers his Famicom Disk collection.

ElectricMonk

#35
Fri 30/04/2004 09:28:46
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I always called it the "Disk Drive"...

Likewise. And "CD Drive" and "DVD Drive", when talking to someone who knows which is which. If they don't, I use the letters, same as with hard disks.

Timosity

#36
Fri 30/04/2004 09:35:55 Last Edit: Fri 30/04/2004 09:39:12 by Timosity
I call it a floppy drive or disc drive, I call the discs floppies, or discs

but before I had a 5.25 drive, I had one of these.

Origamiguy

#37
Sat 01/05/2004 20:33:04
Actually, I call mine the B:\ drive. My A:\ is still my 5.25" floppy drive. I've managed to keep the bloody thing across four new computers. Of course, I use the 128 meg USB drive for all my file transfer nowadays...

Domino

#39
Sat 01/05/2004 20:36:56
I used to call my floppy drive my A: drive, until one night i was putzing around inside of my computer without turning the power off and totally fried my A: drive.

I had to go and buy an external 3.5" floppy drive, which is now my E: drive.

R.I.P. A: drive, i didn't mean to kill you.  :'(
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