Chambers wrote:
> Talk about bad practice.

I remember spending 15 minutes or so on an original Mac trying to figure 
out why I couldn't save my work, or make a copy of it on the floppy, or 
etc etc etc, because the floppy was write-protected. No message or 
anything - just failure to highlight the drive icon when you drag the 
folder over it, a greyed-out save menu, etc.

I liked the Amiga mechanism much better. You drag a file onto a disk 
icon, it pops up a window saying the drive is write-protected, you take 
the disk out, unprotect it, put it back in, and it automatically clicks 
"retry" for you.

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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
  Helpful housekeeping hints:
   Check your feather pillows for holes
    before putting them in the washing machine.

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