Kids

[Diablus]

What's even more unbelivable: What sort of pinko school has computers with the floppys as H and F?

welcome to the wonderful, money greedy rich school of commack who enjoy investing its taxpayers money into TV's in each classroom that no teachers ever use and a dukane system that cost a few thousand and does nothing but cause problems for teachers. and i don't know much about computers, now tell me. what are the floppy drives "supposed" to be called hmm?

[Geminosity]

A: always to the A: XD
the second usually gets shunted into the almost never used letter: B

[Black Mage]

diskette drives (3.5") should be A:
floppy drives (5.25") should be B:

... methinks

[Satiagraha]

diskette drives (3.5") should be A:
floppy drives (5.25") should be B:

... methinks

definitely, thats how i had it on my old 286MHz, and C: was the HDD (yes, all 0.5GB of it ) and D: was the CD drive

[lolfighter]

Interesting, I've never used my floppy drive. And people said Apple were crazy when they released the iMac without one.

[That Annoying Kid]

definitely, thats how i had it on my old 286MHz, and C: was the HDD (yes, all 0.5GB of it ) and D: was the CD drive

sounds like my old computer

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- the cd drive :p
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[ANeM]

What is the point of a CD drive then you couldn't even fit an entire CD on your hd?  :blink:
Oh.. yeah.. I forget.. "back in the day" they ran programs off CDs.. and hardly used the entire CD.. 7megs does not validate the usage of a CD.. 70.. maybe.

[SaltzBad]

500MB HD on a 286? And a CD drive? Woaaaaaaaah?!

I hope something in there is a typo, or you've seriously got your update priorities mixed up.

And why does 7 megs not validate using a CD? Rather have 5 floppys? :p

[XeroSlayer]

diskette drives (3.5") should be A:
floppy drives (5.25") should be B:

... methinks

definitely, thats how i had it on my old 286MHz, and C: was the HDD (yes, all 0.5GB of it ) and D: was the CD drive

Does that mean my 2Ghz P4 with Windows XP is old?
 <3

[lolfighter]

[...]7megs does not validate the usage of a CD.. 70.. maybe.

Oh yes it does. Just because the maximum capacity of a CD is far greater than a floppy, it doesn't mean that you have to use the floppies if you can, and only the CD when necessary. A CD is:

• less sensitive to outside influences (heat, cold, magnetism)
• more durable even under perfect storage conditions (show me the floppy that lasts five years - I know mine usually didn't)
• way cheaper to produce

So once CD drives became common, there was no real incentitive to release games on floppies anymore - they were more expensive, and more prone to failure. Add the huge storage capacity and you have an instant winner.

[Sancho]

500MB HD on a 286? And a CD drive? Woaaaaaaaah?!

I hope something in there is a typo, or you've seriously got your update priorities mixed up.

And why does 7 megs not validate using a CD? Rather have 5 floppys? :p

Actually, he said 286mhz, not the 286.  Wait...did they even make a 286mhz processor?  Clearify plz!

[SaltzBad]

Ah, probably the Pentium 266 - thats not even remotely old though. Thats more like just a bit obsolete :p

[BobTheJanitor]

P266, in computer terms, is ancient. Yes, it was only really only a handful of years ago, but in the computer world you might as well be talking about an artifact from the middle kingdom of egypt.

[Fewlio]

Well, CDs dont last very long either.... I mean they explode when they spin too fast o_O.... and writable cds tend to deterioate.... gg.

[Black Mage]

Well, CDs dont last very long either.... I mean they explode when they spin too fast o_O.... and writable cds tend to deterioate.... gg.

cds also explode when you cover them with firecrackers

[Ulatoh]

386's explode when you try to install XP on them...mwhahahha

We installed 98 on a hd, and then put it in a 386... that was funny... it didnt work verywell... it only worked enough to tell us we "STOLD ITSH MEGAHURTZ!"

[Grimm]

Its funny as hell, if any of you have seen the show Starcade, sometimes shown on TechTV. Sometimes the prizes are 'brand new' computers (for the time of the show that is, which was at most recent sometime in the 1980's) with *Gasp* 128 kb of hard drive space (woah!).

 :lol: