What do you call YOUR A Drive?
I call it 'A Drive'.
But everybody I know seems to call it '3 and a half inch floppy'.
"Open your 3 and a half inch floppy" for instance. Which sounds wrong on two levels.
I would jump on the bandwagon, but I am afraid the bandwagon is full of idiocy.
What do YOU call YOUR A Drive?
A drive.
In my bandwagon it is usually A, for all I know, and when talking about the disk itself, it is just floppy...
A:
"Check the A again..."
"Save it on A..."
So on...
It depends...I'm very undecidable you see, One month it's called an "A drive", next "Formerly known as an "A DRIVE", but not anymore." Next month it's called a "Floppy of 3.5 inch driveness" or "Drive of floppiness that's inches are 3 1/2" etc...
I call it a "floppy", and I do so in a loud, confident voice.
I don't have one ...
But if I did, I've always called it just 'the floppy drive'.
Except when we used to have 2 floppy drives. The 'floppy' and the 'little floppy'. Some of you might remember what I'm talking about ...
After the 5.25" disks went the way of the dodo, the 3.5" became just 'the floppy drive'.
Hehe, yeah, I remember when our computer had both big and little floppy drives.
I still call the old ones floppys.. the 5 1/4" I believe.. but the smaller ones I always called "three-and-a-half inch disk." They haven't been floppy since the 80's people. Depending on the computer, it could be the "A" drive. I only refer to the drive designation if i'm speaking in reference to the computer.
I remember calling the bigger ones "floppys", and the smaller ones were "diskettes"... We didn't have the big drive, but my friends did...
Did any of you do the old trick of drilling an extra hole in the 720kB disks to make it 1,44 MB?
EDIT: Where are my manners... I used to call it "the A drive". Now I don't call it at all.
I only seem to use it once every two years. I call it the floppy drive.
Quote from: YOke on Thu 29/04/2004 19:24:26
Did any of you do the old trick of drilling an extra hole in the 720kB disks to make it 1,44 MB?
EDIT: Where are my manners... I used to call it "the A drive". Now I don't call it at all.
No, I didn't think it was technically possible for it to store more than 720kB.
I should tell my old computer teacher that, he has boxes full of those.
Well, whether you call it Floppy or A or whatever, at least none of you call it '3 and a half inch floppy'.
My hunger for sanity has been satiated. My thirst for the truth has been quenched.
I haven't used a three and a half inch floppy since the operation I got a pen drive.
We call it something like the "disketter" (Disquetera).
The 5.25 were the floppies.
After that, the cd-rom (reader or recorder) or the DVD.
A drive when talking to someone who is computerally ept.
Floppy disk drive to older people, and those who are computerally inept.
I think I'll relabel mine the H Drive.. to be diffrent :D... I just call it the floppy drive. And floppy disk.
Quotecomputerally inept.
You just made that up.. didn't you...
"diskett enheten"
It's the floppy drive. A: is just a Windows/DOS thing.
I don't have one....it crapped out a couple years ago, but I never used it anyway....
I always called it the "Disk Drive"...
Quote from: YOke on Thu 29/04/2004 19:24:26
Did any of you do the old trick of drilling an extra hole in the 720kB disks to make it 1,44 MB?
EDIT: Where are my manners... I used to call it "the A drive". Now I don't call it at all.
I did that. I bought DD (double density) disks by the hundreds. Then I drilled them through stacks of 10 until I had enough HD (high density) disks to take over the world. Nowadays everybody seems too have that many, they don't cost as much.
Quite simply, either "Drive A" or "Disk Drive".
I've never heard of someone calling it a "3 and a half inch floppy".
'Floppy Drive'
Or, 'Dave', depending on the situation.
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.
'Twas strange, 'twas passing strange,
'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful:
But I still prefer 'Dave'.
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!"
I call my 3 and a half inch floppy "Mr Happy" and I call my A: drive "aye drive."
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.
I call it A-mi...
Heh just kidding, I just call them floppy drives (Yeah I have a B-mi!)
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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I call mine Bob.
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...
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.
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.
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....
/me 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"
/me now remembers his Famicom Disk collection.
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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.
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.
(http://www.mergetel.com/~blitz/C64/Pics/Per/mytape.jpg)
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...
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Simple, Elegant, easy
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. :'(
i don't have such a thing but if i had i would call it diskettenlaufwerk. that's beautiful. that's long. that's german.
the diskettenlaufwerk is dead, long lives the diskettenlaufwerk!
wow. 3 german words in my second post here. scary.
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hey,
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