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univacky on June 6, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The IBM PC, Part 1 (2012)

If you had a system with only one floppy, you still had an A: and a B: drive. Any access to (virtual) B: would prompt you to insert the other floppy, and I/O would continue until the disk in A: was needed, and you'd be prompted to swap floppies again.

scholia on June 8, 2017 [–]

"The floppy shuffle" as we used to call it. It's why I'd never willingly buy a system with only one drive.

The floppy shuffle on the original Mac was a particular nightmare....

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