SE4 in higher resolutions + OT: floppy disks

PvK · #1 May 27th, 2003, 05:11 AM

My greatest annoyance with Windows and floppy disks is that after one removes the floppy disk, Windows tends to grind itself to a halt while it checks to see if the disk is still around, at annoying and often irrelevant times.

My greatest annoyance with Macs and floppy disks (or CDs) is that the machine tends to lock the disk inside itself, with no physical eject button available, requiring working software/hardware/power/delay to get the disk back from the thing.

Linux has it's own annoyances with disks, of requiring the user to "mount" the disk in software.

Once, again, my Atari 8-bit and ST computers win the contest of annoyance, having none of those problems.

PvK

tbontob · #2 May 27th, 2003, 05:22 AM

PvK, I hear you about the Mac locking the floppy.

It bugged me too, until I discovered it only does that when you have loaded something from the floppy. Resaving the open file to the floppy or closing the file, releases the floppy.

But yes, it was irritating at times when you are working on a multitude of files and then having to figure out which file came from the floppy.

tbontob · #3 May 27th, 2003, 05:28 AM

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Originally posted by tbontob:
PvK, I hear you about the Mac locking the floppy.

It bugged me too, until I discovered it only does that when you have loaded something from the floppy. Resaving the open file to the floppy or closing the file, releases the floppy.

But yes, it was irritating at times when you are working on a multitude of files and then having to figure out which file came from the floppy.

EDIT: Yeh, and my 1981 Apple II+ had none of these problems either.

RE-EDIT: Must be getting tired when I quote myself rather than edit my comments.

[ May 27, 2003, 04:31: Message edited by: tbontob ]

Kamog · #4 May 27th, 2003, 05:50 AM

Speaking of Macs, is there a way to read a Macintosh-formatted 3.5" floppy disk on a PC? I have some old Mac floppies with backups of documents that I created when I still had my Mac. When my house got broken into, they stole my Mac (along with a bunch of other stuff).

I now have a PC running Windows and I can't read my old Mac floppies. Is there a way to read the files without having to buy another Mac?

Krsqk · #5 May 27th, 2003, 06:14 AM

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If you want to eject the floppy you can do it from the desktop by putting the floppy into the trash.

I usually end my floppy experiences by wanting to put them into the trash.

You could drag the My Computer floppy icon to the trash, but I don't think it'd have the desired result.

Of course, we could ask MS to make a Windows keyboard with an Apple key, too.

narf poit chez BOOM · #6 May 27th, 2003, 06:59 AM

try looking under emulater. there are some hardware stuff/sulutions, although i havn't looked at stuff for mac and what i have seen is convoluted - one routes through the printer port!

tbontob · #7 May 27th, 2003, 06:59 AM

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Originally posted by Krsqk:

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If you want to eject the floppy you can do it from the desktop by putting the floppy into the trash.

I usually end my floppy experiences by wanting to put them into the trash. You could drag the My Computer floppy icon to the trash, but I don't think it'd have the desired result. Of course, we could ask MS to make a Windows keyboard with an Apple key, too.

ROFLOL.

I think we have a better chance of MS saying that the Mac OS is a better product than having an Apple Key!

Now before I get trashed myself. Note, I did not say that the Mac OS's are better than Microsoft's.

I was just commenting on the relative probabilities of two events.