Give me the D:!

The :D drive on the other hand is just ecstatic.

Happy drive?
You sound like Bob Ross :)

And here's me with my one terabyte drive and it's nearly full. Of what I really couldn't say, I don't feel like I have all that much saved on here, but apparently it takes up a whole terabyte.

Don't forget /dev/mmcblk0p1 and /dev/nvme0n1p4how4fucking7long1must6these5get

I used to love sorting my dad's rolodex of floppy a disks. He had the 5" floppy b's and he kept those, "for memories" because no one used them anymore at the time.

He had like 4 floppy rolodex cases.

It must have been so fun playing with save icons:-)

It's all the letters along that column. There's a weird artifacting that bolds everything along that line.

I seem to remember a swinging arm that I would click in place after inserting a 5 and a quarter floppy. I do think the 3 and a half floppies ticked a little when you pushed them into the drive, but not nearly so much as clicking the arm in place for the larger ones.

Pretty sure the first floppies were 7", but there weren't in use for very long. But, I would agree with your assessment regarding the two sizes most of us were familiar with.

the p tank is full

When they added directories to DOS, they decided that the colons used as a separator on the DEC system they were basing it on were silly, and the forward slashes used by Unix were nicer. Forward slashes were already the character used to identify something as a command line option rather than a filename on DOS, though, because the world hadn't settled on Unix's dash convention yet, and lots of existing software just checked whether an argument contained forward slashes to decide whether or not it was a filename. That software would break if paths could contain forward slashes. However, there was a tempting character on the keyboard originally used to type ∨ and ∧ before unicode that was also a slash, so they used that.

No no, the real question is why CR LF instead of LF or CR? Why two characters for a line break motherfuckers?

Because forward slashes are used in English

I wonder if it's legal to have a forward slash in a filename on Windows?

There's a great Calvin's dad answer in there somewhere.

CIA

That’s unusual - the vast majority of modern pianos start on an A.

D: E: etc just get assigned as you added drives. D: was usually the CD drive because usually people only had 1 hard drive. I had 3 at one point and my CD drive was F:

LOAD "*",1,1

LOAD "*",8,1 if you had a fancy 1541

I had a cassette drive for my CoCo3 from RadioShack.

I spent a weekend typing in code in BASIC from a magazine to play a shitty pacman clone, tried to save it to the tape, and forgot the first few inches on a new cassette aren't magnetic and can't save anything...

Yes pretty much everyone alive knows what a cassette is. They might not know what a Commodore is specifically

Heros Quest II: so you want to be a hero.

All of it except the part where it implies people immediately abandoned floppies when hard drives showed up. They coexisted for quite a while, and computers would often have one hard drive and one floppy drive (so A:\ and C:\ without B:\).

"The children must not be shown the old gods" This is true only in the most direct way. There is the effigy known as the save icon, which is in very widespread use. Sometimes this leads to questions of "why does it look like that?" and answers of "clouds used to be plastic rectangles with a metal clicky frame you slotted into the big off-white box".

Yes, a and b were floppy drives and are “reserved” insomuch as C:\ is the default for compatibility reasons.

A and B were floppy

Mostly, the part where Microsoft said children should not learn the ways of the old gods should be disregarded.

Every child of the computer should endeavour to learn the old magicks to an extent, many abstractions lay between us and it now but the further one progresses in their studies, the more they will find the old to be a beacon and anchor guiding to them to the rightful truth they require.

Others have answered everything, but just to confirm it: when I started secondary school they still had a room full of computers that didn't have a hard drive. They all worked off of floppy disks. During classes all of them went zugg-zugg-zugg-tsk-tsk.

Yeah, with some embellishment.

Apostate

I get you, but it'd fuck up my title, and it was also 1996 the last time I used them.