Re: The Apple ][ was cool!

["Sam Gillett" <samgillett@msn.com>]

RaYzor wrote in message ...

>While I am not here to defend the Windows OS and put down Amiga OS ( I
>actually like Amiga OS a lot and used it for years until my Amiga
hardware -
>and the OS - was not up to the tasks I needed for college) .. I feel I
must
>say that the Amiga OS did something which I consider far worse.  Does
this
>look familiar:
>
>READ ERROR on BLOCK 1154  - OKAY OR CANCEL
>*clicks CANCEL*
>READ ERROR on BLOCK 1154  - OKAY OR CANCEL
>*clicks CANCEL*
>READ ERROR on BLOCK 1154  - OKAY OR CANCEL
>*clicks CANCEL*
>repeat 40 times.  Finally try OKAY to see what that does ... repeat 40
>times.
>Eject the disk so its quit trying .. requestor shows "You MUST replace
>volume (xxxx) in drive DF0:"
>
>Then, sick of the whole ordeal, close all programs, eject disk, and hit
>Cntrl-Ami-Ami ......
>
>Thats a bit more annoying than the OS being slow for a few minutes to
me.
>
>And don't even get me started on the Amiga invalidating hard disks at
will
>and taking hours to revalidate them so they worked correctly, even with
>DiskSalv .......
>
Hi RaYzor,

Your post makes me glad that I skipped the Amiga and went directly from
an 8-bit Commodore  to a PC.    ;-)

Best regards,

Sam Gillett aka Mars Probe @ Starship Intrepid (972) 221-4088
     Commodore lives . . . . . if you call 1200 baud alive!

BTW, if anyone wonders, the Starship Intrepid may be the last 1200 baud
BBS in the US.    ;-/