Ancient traditions
Ancient traditions
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I’ve been a Mac user since 1989 and what is A:?
ETA: Never change Lemmy
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Floppy disk drive.
A and B were reserved and your first hard disk drive was C.
The two disk drives had fixed memory addresses because they were often specific ports on the motherboard, and loaded the OS, etc. Things after that were more dynamic.
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Look at Mr. System 6 over here! I grew up on System 7 myself.
I bet you were transferring all your files over the internet encoded in BinHex format, eh?
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It was actually System 1. My dad bought an old used Mac because the GUI made more sense than the DOS PCs in his price range.
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Floppy disk drive
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Weird corpo syntax for automatic mounts under an old OS.
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