What are the Windows A: and B: drives used for?

Re:What are the Windows A: and B: drives used for? by SeanDav on Saturday October 19, 2013 @09:09AM (#6576262)

A friend of my Father's was a mainframe guru, back in the day, and he told us about "cylinder" hard drives that would take several hours to power down because the torsional stress on them would get too high if slowed down too quickly. Also tape drives that were spinning so quickly they could be dangerous.

Sounds almost like heavy engineering!

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Re:What are the Windows A: and B: drives used for? by adestefan on Saturday October 19, 2013 @09:17AM (#6576282)

I remember the time someone thought they'd save money by buying cheap paper for the high speed IBM 6400 line printer. The print head moved so fast it just shredded the paper into a fine dust that caked in every internal part. It sucked cleaning that out.

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Re:What are the Windows A: and B: drives used for? by pfarrell on Saturday October 19, 2013 @12:13PM (#6576866)

Some of the most brilliant people I've worked with are satisfied by the work, without needing lots of self-promotion.

"The Story of Mel" is both inspiring and humbling. A "real programmer"

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html

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Re:What are the Windows A: and B: drives used for? by btilly on Saturday October 19, 2013 @12:07PM (#6576840)

I am reminded of http://www.penzba.co.uk/GreybeardStories/TheBlackTeam.html.

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