Apple III & Profile

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_ncal.verio.com>
Date: Wed Aug 12 18:19:16 1998

On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Dellett, Anthony wrote:

> > > the OS at least checked this before it assumed the right disk
> > > was in the drive - unless your program was working at a low
> > > level, and asked for a specific (#4:, #5:) drive.
> >
> > It was the OS itself that maimed my files. The OS! I put in
> > the wrong disk and the OS puked all over it.
>
> I remember this happening if you were writing to a disk and accidentally
> put the wrong one in.

I can't remember the exact circumstances, but I wasn't doing anything
extraordinary at the time. Just swapping disks as the OS told me when I
was trying to load a source file or something silly like that. It was
totally unwarranted. That's why I still remember such a silly thing to
this day. It should be a case study in poor exception handling for
Computer Science 201. That and the scene in the re-make of The Fly with
Jeff Goldblum where the computer defaults to the chamber with the fly that
ends up being merged with Jeff's character because he didn't specify the
destination pod or whatever.

Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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