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Re:For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used? by rbanffy on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @06:52AM (#2095834)
> I haven't actually put a floppy in there in years

I have one computer (a Sun workstation) with a 3.5 drive that no longer works. The fun part is I cannot tell you in what year it broke.

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Re:For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used? by electromagnetic on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @07:25AM (#2095901)
Mine broke when the eject failed, I used a paper clip to pull it out, but lost the paper clip. When it started smoking I had to pull the floppy's power - thankfully I had the side open to my computer so I didn't have to turn the whole thing off before I caused an actual fire.

I think this was back in the early 2000's.

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Re:For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used? by rbanffy on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @09:09AM (#2096153)
Here it just silently failed. I wanted to write something to a floppy and it just couldn't.
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