Hornet3d
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I answered a posting related to the old 'A' drive over in the Hivewire3D is closing thread but it is detracting from that thread so stated this
The old 'A' drive or 3.5" floppy disks are pretty well extinct but I did see recently that one company has developed a USB portable version -
'Are you looking to read or write data using legacy 3.5" Floppy Disks (FD) for your applications such as archiving or historical data mining? Current Computer Systems are now being manufactured without these once popular peripherals.
Introducing the new Dynamode USB-FDD. Compact and stylish, the device is fully USB Bus Powered and allows users to read and write to standard 3.5" Floppy Disks to a formatted capacity of 1.44Mbytes - the industry standard. With fast read and write times and the ability to be used with a variety of Operating Systems including Windows® and MAC® OS X. Fully USB1.1 compatible and yielding a high data transfer rate of up to 250k bits per second, the USB-FDD is ideal for both Desktop, Servers and Mobile users.'
While new computers do not come equipped with such devices isn't strange that the OS drive is still always the 'C' drive and no drive is shown with the letter 'A'.
The old 'A' drive or 3.5" floppy disks are pretty well extinct but I did see recently that one company has developed a USB portable version -
'Are you looking to read or write data using legacy 3.5" Floppy Disks (FD) for your applications such as archiving or historical data mining? Current Computer Systems are now being manufactured without these once popular peripherals.
Introducing the new Dynamode USB-FDD. Compact and stylish, the device is fully USB Bus Powered and allows users to read and write to standard 3.5" Floppy Disks to a formatted capacity of 1.44Mbytes - the industry standard. With fast read and write times and the ability to be used with a variety of Operating Systems including Windows® and MAC® OS X. Fully USB1.1 compatible and yielding a high data transfer rate of up to 250k bits per second, the USB-FDD is ideal for both Desktop, Servers and Mobile users.'
While new computers do not come equipped with such devices isn't strange that the OS drive is still always the 'C' drive and no drive is shown with the letter 'A'.