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- From: barrett@netins.net (Marc N. Barrett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!y
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 22:58:31 -0500
- Organization: Pegasus Consultants Company
- Message-ID: <barrett-1904962258320001@167.142.15.127>
- References: <1996Mar9.164206.53264@cobra.uni.edu> <DoB0sw.CxI@bton.ac.uk> <4jvh78$8gn@mack.rt66.com> <1996Apr4.001549.53820@cobra.uni.edu> <4kd18u$kl3@toad.stack.urc.tue.nl> <4kdrnr$ipf@hubcap.clemson.edu> <151588@cup.portal.com>
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- In article <151588@cup.portal.com>, Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) wrote:
-
- >>In article <4kd18u$kl3@toad.stack.urc.tue.nl> haroldk@stack.urc.tue.nl (Harold
- >
- >>Klink) writes:
- >>:sinclap2954@cobra.uni.edu (PETER SINCLAIR-DAY) writes:
- >>
- >>:> I thought you could have
- >>:>fun while formatting floppies...
- >>
- >>[...]
- >>
- >>:And I can get lotsa fun on my Amiga while formatting floppies.
- >>
- >>Someone please explain to some of us exactly WHAT the fascination of people
- >>on this newsgroup is with FORMATTING FLOPPIES? Is that all you do with
- >>your computer all day or what?
- >>
- >>:)
- >>
- >>--
- >>__ ___ _ _ _ | >>>>> charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu <<<<<
- >>|_)o _ |/ | |_|\_/| / \|_) |'94 BS ChE, Clemson ; "Will work for food!"
- >>| \||_ |\ | | | | |_\_/| \ |"So this is it, we're going to die!" --A.D.
- >>Charles E. "Rick" Taylor, IV | http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~charlet/
- >
- >Nothing other than that (a) it makes a good demonstration of
- >multitasking and (b) sometimes it can actually come in handy.
- >
- >Example: you're online, doing stuff, perhaps in a chat, as I often
- >am. A friend comes over. He asks you for a copy of some program
- >you're using and hands you a floppy. On an Amiga, you pop in the
- >floppy, format it, copy the program to it, eject the disk and hand
- >it backto him, all the while your online activities have not
- >stopped one bit (chatting, downloading, whatever) and you can merrily
- >flip screens between your term program, TCP clients, shell window,
- >other programs, whatever.
- >
- >Try that on a Mac, Jack. Fire up ZTerm and get online and go
- >to, say IRC, and start yakking. Then shove in an unformatted
- >floppy disk and format it and copy a program to it and watch
- >what happens to your terminal session.
-
- Hmmm..., My terminal session seems unaffected. I grabbed a utility
- called "DiskCharmer", ran it, stuck a disk in the drive, and I am
- formatting the floppy as I type this.
-
- Here's a URL for DiskCharmer if anyone is interested:
- http://www.macworld.com/downloads/utilities/DiskCharmer3.0.2.sit.hqx
-
- --
- Marc Barrett
- barrett@netins.net
-