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They eventually tanked because of poor market adoption... only high-end IBMs and NeXT machines used them. The Amiga managed to cram 1760K onto one DSHD floppy, which is about the same as Microsoft's DMF format =)
I honestly never heard too much of NeXT until around the time I started actually caring about Mac OS X. 
Makes me wonder about the Atari ST floppy format: Was it only IBM-compatibles, or did their own disk format exist or something? I'm not too experienced with anything like this beyond PCs and maybe C64s.
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I remember seeing 2.88MB disks in stores... and nobody buying them. 
Kinda reminds you of the Zip Drive, no? (Then again, CD-R's killed that.)
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Originally posted by Terra
Our 386 and 486 had both 9 cm and 5.25" drives. (Fun fact: The specifications for the smaller disks are in fact metric, not imperial like the larger ones.) Then, our Pentium I only had the 9 cm drive, and I thought that was kind of weird. And eventually, computers had no floppy drives at all.
And yet, forevermore the designation for a hard drive will be C:\ and CD/DVD/Blu-Ray/HolographicFutureDisk will go after that, just in case there is an A:\ or B:\ floppy drive... 
Originally posted by Database
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Originally posted by Terra
I wonder if modern computers can actually map non-floppy drives to A or B.
Probably, but I would guess you might have issues with poorly-coded software assuming what drive letter things are. (I remember on one of my older computers the CD drive was E:\, and we had this CD that would refuse to install because the installer couldn't find the files on the D:\ drive...)
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Originally posted by Terra
I wonder if modern computers can actually map non-floppy drives to A or B.
Hmm, I have never tried that, but Windows has some issues with it. It reserves A and B for floppy drives so the first possible "normal" slot is C:. Certainly, Daemon Tools won't allow me to map a virtual CD drive to B: (A: is already in use by the physical floppy drive).
A more interesting question would be what happens if you run out of letters.
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Originally posted by Terra
I wonder if modern computers can actually map non-floppy drives to A or B.
Hmm, I have never tried that, but Windows has some issues with it. It reserves A and B for floppy drives so the first possible "normal" slot is C:. Certainly, Daemon Tools won't allow me to map a virtual CD drive to B: (A: is already in use by the physical floppy drive).
A more interesting question would be what happens if you run out of letters.
Your computer explodes.
Or it goes to AA:/
(No, NOT Alcoholics Anonymous with a face at the end.)
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| I thought Japanese Windows used A for a hard disk? 
I thought after Z came 1, 2, 3, etc... That or they actually do go to Alcoholics Anonymous. That or they just can't assign anything else.
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| | Metal_Man88's Post | Originally posted by Prince Kassad
Originally posted by Terra
I wonder if modern computers can actually map non-floppy drives to A or B.
Hmm, I have never tried that, but Windows has some issues with it. It reserves A and B for floppy drives so the first possible "normal" slot is C:. Certainly, Daemon Tools won't allow me to map a virtual CD drive to B: (A: is already in use by the physical floppy drive).
A more interesting question would be what happens if you run out of letters.
I'm not 100% sure but I think it goes to AA AB AC etc.
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Originally posted by Kerli
Some old software for DOS actually went past drive Z: and to drives [: /: ]: ^: _: and `:... assuming 32 drives
I've even seen a glitched screenshot with a drive @:, too
That's for circular floppy disks, I assume?
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Originally posted by Terra
Or maybe for sending E-mail attachments using a virtual drive assignment
Hm... that would be an interesting set-up, have a virtual drive where anything dropped into it is instantly e-mailed out? I don't think you could do that on Windows, though.
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