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Why “C” Is The Default Hard Drive Letter (2016x18)

Air date: Jan 25, 2016

→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut How Did Jeans Become Popular? https://youtu.be/O1eUwpO76Pw?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3XRa-w_G0dy_aMMXj0Uq-k The Numerous Bodies Recently Found in Ben Franklin’s Basement https://youtu.be/tp61Yrj5lTA?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3XRa-w_G0dy_aMMXj0Uq-k In this video: The idea for designating different storage devices with simple letters is generally attributed to IBM’s virtual machine operating systems developed in the 1960s, starting with their CP-40 and CP/CMS systems, and later very notably, among others, copied by the CP/M operating system created by the company Digital Research, Inc. In the early systems (CP/CMS) the letters were used mostly to designated logical drives, although later (such as with CP/M), they were used to specify physical storage devices. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/04/c-drive-default-windows-based-computers-2/ Sources: http://www.forbes.com/profile/bill-gates/ http://www.forbes.com/profile/warren-buffett/ http://www.forbes.com/profile/steve-ballmer/ http://www.forbes.com/profile/paul-allen/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/bill-gates/9812672/Bill-Gates-interview-I-have-no-use-for-money.-This-is-Gods-work.html http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/change-add-remove-drive-letter#1TC=windows-7 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_partitioning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_letter_assignment http://www.gatesfoundation.org/who-we-are/general-information/foundation-factsheet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_hard_disk_drives#1980s.2C_the_PC_era http://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs201/proj