Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 3rd Apr 2009 16:16 UTC, submitted by google_ninja
Remember, back in the day, before USB drives became common place, you had to use those weird square disks? We called them floppies, and they had about as much storage capacity as my current computer has in its power switch alone. One of the problems with floppy drives was that it was impossible to determine whether there was a floppy in the drive without actually spinning up the drive. Windows 95 almost had a feature that could detect whether or not there was a floppy in the drive without spinning it up.
Thread beginning with comment 356733
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
RE: Of course, Amiga had that in 85
by bibe on Fri 3rd Apr 2009 17:50
in reply to "Of course, Amiga had that in 85"
Member since:2005-07-09
Yes I remember that's the first difference i noticed on Amiga 500 and Atari TT after a guy way asked to insert a new disk, I thought wow, that's a neat detail. Today after i close the CD-tray on my laptop it still takes Vista approx 9 sec to figure out there's nothing in there...ts ts ts ts :'(
RE: Of course, Amiga had that in 85
by Gorgak on Fri 3rd Apr 2009 18:54
in reply to "Of course, Amiga had that in 85"
Member since:2007-05-30
There were utilities for the Amiga called "clickoff", "noclick" etc, which removed the clicking noise while leaving the disk detection feature intact. I never figured out how that was possible, or why Commodore didn't include it by default in later Amigas, or why it even clicked in the first place if that wasn't necessary. 
RE[2]: Of course, Amiga had that in 85
by Vanders on Fri 3rd Apr 2009 23:31
in reply to "RE: Of course, Amiga had that in 85"
Member since:2005-07-06
RE: Of course, Amiga had that in 85
by No it isnt on Sat 4th Apr 2009 00:22
in reply to "Of course, Amiga had that in 85"
Member since:2005-11-14
RE: Of course, Amiga had that in 85
by Redeeman on Sat 4th Apr 2009 10:49
in reply to "Of course, Amiga had that in 85"
Member since:2006-03-23
Yes, I know we're all well past the days when Amiga users gloated at Windows users, but Amigas did have this feature from day one -- ie 1985.
The downside was that Amiga floppy drives made random clicking noises every now and then, which was (as Microsoft's engineers rightly surmised in this story) rather annoying. But it was still a good feature.
The downside was that Amiga floppy drives made random clicking noises every now and then, which was (as Microsoft's engineers rightly surmised in this story) rather annoying. But it was still a good feature.
you obviously didnt have that lovely program in your startup-sequence, which made the click almost inaudible, while still working
quite nice...
RE[2]: Of course, Amiga had that in 85
by JLF65 on Sat 4th Apr 2009 10:54
in reply to "RE: Of course, Amiga had that in 85"
Member since:2005-07-06
you obviously didnt have that lovely program in your startup-sequence, which made the click almost inaudible, while still working quite nice...
quite nice... Or just drag the icon into the WBStartup drawer. Much easier for the average person than editing the startup-sequence or user-startup.
RE: Of course, Amiga had that in 85
by nywles on Sat 4th Apr 2009 11:47
in reply to "Of course, Amiga had that in 85"
Member since:2009-01-16
Recent Original Stories
Recent Comments
Headlines
Random Comments
Random Stories
Random OS Link
Member since:
2009-03-25
Yes, I know we're all well past the days when Amiga users gloated at Windows users, but Amigas did have this feature from day one -- ie 1985.
The downside was that Amiga floppy drives made random clicking noises every now and then, which was (as Microsoft's engineers rightly surmised in this story) rather annoying. But it was still a good feature.