"And the bios sayeth unto the user: Come forth and insert disk 23 of 30. And they did so. When the needle of the drive tested the disk, it had become corrupted, verily."

We still pay homage to the old gods with the "save" icon

CD? Ohh those the weird disco frisbees that ruined audio vibes!

/s

I was too young to catch the 5.25 ones, but had a 3.5 floppy drive. For me the question was more of "where did B: go?"

Fabled? It's perfectly ordinary. I see the D drive all the time. At home it used to be an HDD to store things that didn't need the speed of the SSD (media, documents, etc), and now it's where USB drives end up on my work laptop.

i'm a unix omnivore

In my mind it will always and forever be the CD-ROM drive, but any drive added to a standard Windows system (including partitions) will just continue the alphabet from C. So if you install a second hard drive (or partition your only one) it will become D, the next one will be E, and so on:

I’ll leave it to someone else to convey this in a biblical fashion.

You didn’t mention Arch. You’re not an Ubuntu user are you?

TIL.

I was small when 5.25 floppies we're around. Never even questioned "C:"

But what of the fabled and cursed other, D: drive?

i think even usb floppies show up as a:, don't they? i've not used windows for a decade now, thankfully.

Windows people are starting to name their ssd a: and b:

It's horrible

‘Dances with ribbons of mainframe tape’

Rise ye old ones RISE

Maybe they mean Y STOP or N STOP

Thank you!

Y is pronounced why

I definitively seen these kind of messages prior to the AI era.

I don't get it...

I got curious and checked - there's plenty of room left, about 20 chars or so.

Or "Y or N STOP to end alerts"

That is tragically hilarious. 😭

It could be shortened to fit in a single SMS message

please call the number on back of your card

I feel like if this was vibe coded it would have correct English. "Please call the number on the back of your card"

Try "Y or N STOP"

Oh god... This reminds me of that time:

"A substitution has been made to your order: (A) instead of (B). Reply with Y to approve. "

<"Y"

"Because they were out of (B) sir"

I cringed so fucking hard