Once the program finished, the computer would request that you reinsert the boot disk so you could use the command line again. Unless you spent another $1k or so on a second floppy drive, then your system was smokin’! If you only had one drive it was common to boot from one disk, put in the other disk with your programs and data, then run the program. You had one floppy drive, and that was it. The early CP/M and IBM PC style computers had no hard drive. Veteran geek Adam Davis offers an in-depth look at the missing drive letters: What and where, indeed? Thankfully we have some seasoned geeks to answer the query. So your second drive is D:, your DVD is E: and if you put in a USB stick it becomes F: and the following drive G. Everything labeled beyond that is with the following letter. SuperUser reader Linker3000 poses the question: For younger geeks, however, the A: and B: drive have always been mysteriously unaccounted for on their computers. If you’re a geek of a certain vintage-we won’t start naming years-the answer to this question is patently obvious to you.
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