Oldies vs ComputersAs someone who is "good with computers" I get a lot of calls from people who've got problems. Some of them even have problems with their computers.
Back many years ago working for a telecoms company, I was called to a senior secretary who "had put a disk into the drive and couldn't get it out". She had one of the first Mac II machines with two drive slots. But only one drive.
Opening up the case revealed stacks of floppy disks that she'd been posting through the hole in the case for weeks. She'd only decided there was a problem when her boss wanted one of them back...
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chthonic, Fri 22 Sep 2006, 13:58)
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felgekarpCopying and pasting between floppies does actually work on some OSes - it'll ask you to re-insert the original, will read the data, then ask for the target disk. Granted, not as convenient as moving it via the hard drive, but certainly possible; and a necessity back in the cave when you might not even have a hard disk.
(, Tue 26 Sep 2006, 15:08, Reply)
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