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

5" and 3.5" disk drive?

Those are the anal and bukkake drives. The first is for input and the second is for output.

Ass and Butt!

I actually did remember this, it was for the 5.25" floppy and 3.5" floppy, however the 3.5" even though smaller it got hard!

Originally Posted by Prince

Ass and Butt!

I actually did remember this, it was for the 5.25" floppy and 3.5" floppy, however the 3.5" even though smaller it got hard!

My floppy turns into a hard drive for you!

Anyone know what the P: drive on my home computer is for?

a: 3.5 diskette
b: 5.25 Floppy

i dont really miss windows 95 too much. i do miss windows 2.0 and 3.0 though

Originally Posted by awhites1

i dont really miss windows 95 too much. i do miss windows 2.0 and 3.0 though

3.11 for WorkGroups, I have it on a Linux dual boot emachines under my desk and I KVM into it for some old Excel 5.0 spread sheets I created back in the Navy for various things I like to keep track of and I tried to use them with Office 2003 and it just mangles the data...

Actually if you go back far enough I think it would be two 5.25 Floppys.

Originally Posted by vortrit

Actually if you go back far enough I think it would be two 5.25 Floppys.

My dad was an instrumentation tech at a power plant. When they upgraded computers he would bring home a truckload of old machines which to me was better than Christmas. Many of them had no hard drive and run duel 5.25 floppies, so you are correct. I use to boot DOS 3.0, then 5.0, then finally 6.22 until windows 3.0 came out. I fucking hated windows back then. My favorite games and applications ran better on DOS. It wasnt; until windows 95 came out that I was impressed.

Technology advancement is the shit, because I fucking despised floppies. I remember back in 1990 I had to run the original Norton Utilities to fix bad sectors on my diskettes about half the time I needed to use them. Shit, years before that my Tandy Color had a tape drive that was 10 times more reliable than diskettes.

Thumbdrives are the shit. Cloud storage is the shit. Even burned CD's are the shit. I lack the imagination to conceive a more convenient way to move data than what we already have.


By the way, here is a page I found a while back that was pretty amusing.

http://www.gdargaud.net/Humor/QuotesComputer.html

Originally Posted by KelJu

My dad was an instrumentation tech at a power plant. When they upgraded computers he would bring home a truckload of old machines which to me was better than Christmas. Many of them had no hard drive and run duel 5.25 floppies, so you are correct. I use to boot DOS 3.0, then 5.0, then finally 6.22 until windows 3.0 came out. I fucking hated windows back then. My favorite games and applications ran better on DOS. It wasnt; until windows 95 came out that I was impressed.

Technology advancement is the shit, because I fucking despised floppies. I remember back in 1990 I had to run the original Norton Utilities to fix bad sectors on my diskettes about half the time I needed to use them. Shit, years before that my Tandy Color had a tape drive that was 10 times more reliable than diskettes.

Thumbdrives are the shit. Cloud storage is the shit. Even burned CD's are the shit. I lack the imagination to conceive a more convenient way to move data than what we already have.

By the way, here is a page I found a while back that was pretty amusing.

Computer Quotes

Thumbdrives are insanely cool to me. I remember back in the 90's I bought a zip drive when it came out thinking I was the shit because I had so much storage space (100 MB, I believe). It was so worth 250 bucks! Things are dirt cheap compared to then and I couldn't even imagine running out of room on my current hard drive, which is pretty damn awesome compared to then when I was running programs of of floppies and my totally awesome zip drive.

EDIT: Thanks for the link. I just noticed it. Very funny!

Ass, Butt, Pussy drives.

Actually, ultrium tape drives are still insanely expensive somewhere in the $2,000 range. The 7 day tape libraries can cost up to $5,000. I would say about half of the hospitals in the US still backup patient data to tape because it is more secure than a T1 line to offsite locations, and new government EMR regulations require offsite storage of patient data.

Originally Posted by KelJu

Actually, ultrium tape drives are still insanely expensive somewhere in the $2,000 range. The 7 day tape libraries can cost up to $5,000. I would say about half of the hospitals in the US still backup patient data to tape because it is more secure than a T1 line to offsite locations, and new government EMR regulations require offsite storage of patient data.

That may explain why my last bill was so high!

Originally Posted by vortrit

That may explain why my last bill was so high!

People try to blame doctors for health care cost. It is the technology that drives up the price. Electronic medical records is going to drive up the cost even more. I had a meeting with our hospital administrator and our HIS vender today. We have to figure out a way to come up with half a million dollars just to get the ball rolling to get us compliant by 2015. I would say it is going to cost double that by the time we are done.

We are critical access, which means we will get about 58% of that back from Uncle Sam once we are fully compliant. Guess who pays for all my cool new IT toys? The tax payers do. The rest is paid for by increasing healthcare cost to the patient.

So get ready to pay a shit ton more when you go to the doctor in the up coming years.

Originally Posted by KelJu

Actually, ultrium tape drives are still insanely expensive somewhere in the $2,000 range. The 7 day tape libraries can cost up to $5,000. I would say about half of the hospitals in the US still backup patient data to tape because it is more secure than a T1 line to offsite locations, and new government EMR regulations require offsite storage of patient data.

How do you figure it's more secure? If you have a properly configured STS VPN in addition to having the actual data encrypted as well, there's pretty much 0 chance of the data being lost.

8", 5.25" and 3.5"

You old tech nerds got it right.

Originally Posted by danzik17

How do you figure it's more secure? If you have a properly configured STS VPN in addition to having the actual data encrypted as well, there's pretty much 0 chance of the data being lost.

It's more secure because any idiot can deliver an encrypted tape to a bank vault and retrieve it later in the event of a catastrophe. There is usually only one tape of concern, which is the one from the day before the shit hit the fan. You know who is responsible for that tape, so if it goes missing, you know who is accountable.

In a complex network utilizing a VPN, many people have their hands involved in the process, and there are many ways for someone to fuck shit up, or for shit to just get fucked up due to negligence.

Maybe I should have said secure/reliable instead of just secure. But, HIPAA has defined encrypted tapes as the most reliable means of storing patient data. HIPAA also defines faxes as more secure than encrypted email, so go figure.