Not true, you can connect as many Drives as physically possible, but they won't all have letters assigned. I think there's a way to access a drive without a letter, but anyway you can still mount it as a path under an existing letter.

i think even usb floppies show up as a:, don’t they?

They do. And virtual floppy drives on a virtual machine show up as A:/B: too.

Ah, Sierra. I played Return to Krondor back in the day, and it's a great game. Unfortunately, and if I remember correctly, the installer was kind of bugged. See, when you installed the game, it created a Sierra folder in your desired destination folder. But when you uninstalled it, it removed everything in the folder that contained the Sierra folder. I luckily installed it in my Games folder and only lost some games in the process. If you installed the game in to the root of you C drive and then uninstalled it... Well, you were in for a fun evening.

Thanks Sierra. I'm glad you're dead.

I was there, Gandalf.

My first computer was Tandy. 8088 chip, I think. Orange monochrome monitor. No hard drive, 2x 5.25 floppers. Folks' co-worker asked if anyone wanted it before tossing it out.

I'm not quite that old, though, there were the Apple IIs in the school lab.

I learned my first bit of programming right then, figuring out batch files. Everything had to be saved on disc immediately.

Man I was living the high life because this Tandy had a 2400 baud modem and I was soon acquainted with the wild world of BBSs.

I didn't care that it was in monochrome because playing Usurper or Trade Wars with strangers on someone's computer half a state away was way way cooler than the Nintendo, ha ha.

Man those were such good times.

They fart on those things!

Pfft, IT people push to master 16:59 on a friday before logging off and laugh about it over pints

How did you get so strong?

For every idiot with an IT problem that could be solved by possessing object permanence and the ability to read at above a 6th grade level, I do one push up.

...

Jesus Christ...

Yeah cuz like you really don't wanna be there, but to wanna be kind and also flex your skills. It's... Complicated.

I have a bad back so I can handle this for about 4 minutes tops before I have to pull up a chair.

Shouldn't one hand be holding out the vaseline?

Wrong.

I have to touch their mangy keyboard and mouse. I don’t want to use that chair unless I have to!

I’m so glad I got out of that line of work. Offices are gross.

H for Hard drive, duh 🤣

I never did it - by the time I had an optical drive, I had hard drives - but I kinda wish I had such a system. So wild to have like 500 times the data on a CD (much less DVD) than the floppied you booted from! lol.

Imagine the chaos if you could write to multi-writable CDs, too. lol. THat would have been wild.

Next time I'm in this situation I'm telling the person I'm helping to get their ass off the chair. If I'm helping you the least you can do is let me sit down!

I still can't get over that windows boxes can't have more than 23 drives connected, excluding C. Just absolutely hilarious ineptitude. Similarly the case insensitive filesystem makes it so the vast majority of file operations don't work [in all cases like they should].

All must praise the 9s, for Prod is a fickle mistress, and hell hath no fury like a server scorned

As an IT guy I am able to sit from time to time when helping users, on the floor, under the table, pulling cables.

You can only boot from the C Drive these days because a modern BIOS AI has such a small model it can only read at a first grade level. The first commands it understands are C Drive "the discovery command", C Drive Run "initial boot", Run Drive Run "OS handover".

This is the "I want to be back at my own desk in two minutes / this shouldn't take long" posture.

Things are serious if the tech has to sit, and if you're the tech and you sit right away, you'd better explain if you're not expecting it to be serious, because users often pick up on the connection even if they don't consciously realise it.

I had an xp install that defaulted my boot drive to H: and I never bothered to figure out why or change it.

Praise the omnisiah

Simple A: and B: were reserved for floppies and when hard drives came along C: was the next letter. There now you know..

i like to pretend the C stands for computer and that's why