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On 08/06/2011 02:38 PM, Warp wrote:
> Francois Labreque<fla### [at] videotron ca> wrote:
>> 5.25" and 8" drives actually locked the door while the
>> head was moving.
>
> Ah, the time when disks were actually physically pulled out of the drive
> via manual force, rather than being ejected by a spring mechanism...
>
> Would you believe I'm too young to have ever used such disk drives?
> I grew up with 3.5-inch hard-covered "floppy" disks. The luxury.
My memory is that on the 5.25" drive I saw, you turned a little knob
(which blocks the slot where the disk goes in). Until you turn this
knob, the drive won't acknowledge the media.
Let me see if I can find an image...
...there we go:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_1541
As you can see, with the knob turned, you physically can't move the
disk, because the knob is in the way.
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