Evolution of Storage Disks Part-I

It is really nice to see the advancing technology, growing step by step, slowly and steadily, meeting the needs of the human kind at the right time and making us comfortable in all aspects.

Can you guess when you saw a floppy for the last time or even a picture of it? Our thinking will roll back to our school days, the  antique computers there and beside them there used to be floppies. But I will tell you that you see the floppy almost every day. Confused? What is the  icon we use to represent Save. Yeah! It is the symbol of a floppy disk.

Floppy disks have made much impact when it comes to data storage. At present it might have worth little for us, but once it was the life of computers, they used to carry the whole Operating System in a floppy disk. The computer will not even boot without these floppies. I know you raise a question “then what about the software and games?” They too were in floppies. If you need any software take for example a word processor, then insert the floppy containing the files for this word processor, insert it load the software, use it and then remove the floppy out of the drive.

At this point of time I would like to share with you an interesting fact, hope many of you may know this, in today’s computers, we have drive letters for our hard disks, why does it start with the letter “C” (C:\) and not “A”(A:\) or “B”(B:\). The reason is simple, in olden computers they used two floppy drives named A:\ and B:\. The A drive is used to load the OS and the B drive is used to load the required soft wares, and then as technology evolved and came hard disks and so the drive letter for the hard disks started with C.