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

[Meowster]

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?

[TheDude]

A drive.

[Ishmael]

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...

[Phemar]

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...

[Archangel (aka SoupDragon)]

I call it a "floppy", and I do so in a loud, confident voice.

[Darth Mandarb]

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'.

[shbaz]

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.

[Ishmael]

I remember calling the bigger ones "floppys", and the smaller ones were "diskettes"... We didn't have the big drive, but my friends did...

[YOke]

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.

[Robert Eric]

I only seem to use it once every two years.  I call it the floppy drive.

[shbaz]

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.

[Meowster]

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.

[Kweepa]

I haven't used a three and a half inch floppy since the operation I got a pen drive.

[Nacho]

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.

[m0ds]

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 ... I just call it the floppy drive. And floppy disk.

computerally inept.

You just made that up.. didn't you...

[Andail]

"diskett enheten"

[AGA]

It's the floppy drive. A: is just a Windows/DOS thing.

[squinks]

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"...

[D · Y · D · O]

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.