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Re:For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used? by ghostDancer on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @07:47AM (#2095947)
Well windows 1.0 were only [1] 5 5.25" floppies and [2] 2 for MS-DOS and another one for write (the grandfather of word). I think i need a drive to try them again ;-) .

[1] http://twitpic.com/39kbjz [2] http://twitpic.com/39kaxd

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Re:For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used? by ikitat on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @08:25AM (#2096032)
I recall Slackware Linux requiring 13 disks
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Re:For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used? by robin_reala on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @08:56AM (#2096113)
My younger brother typed format c: instead of format a: once on my Dad’s laptop that he was borrowing to do homework - he was up all night reinstalling Windows 95 from 26 floppys.
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Re:For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used? by geedee77 on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @10:55AM (#2096502)
My older brother, when learning assembly, needed a memory address to write to on the hard disk of my Dad's business computer. Sadly he chose the first one as he hadn't discovered the File Allocation Table at that point. My Dad wasn't best pleased, even though technically the data was still on the disk!
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Re:For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used? by Florin_Andrei on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @01:50PM (#2097182)
Well, that was for a full install. A trimmed-down system required only a few.
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