Windows lives on the C: drive, and the reason it's not called A: or B: goes back to the 1970s Old habits die hard.

#Windows11 actually still supports #FloppyDiskDrives.

San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks Muni Metro also plans to ditch super-slow loop cable communication system.

Ah, yes! The media that just wouldn't die...I wonder how much longer they will be around. I remember the floppy drives on my Apple ][+ - single-sided, held 170K if I remember correctly.

#technology #diskdrives #floppydisk #floppydisks #floppydiskdrives

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