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In article <3tovmk$nm7@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>,
root@spielman-ian.eigenmann.indiana.edu (root) wrote:

> Chik (cc_foo@postoffice.sandybay.utas.edu.au) wrote:
> : My opinion is that on the Mac, file management is soooo much easier --
> : being totally graphical and all. On PCs, inserting a disk isn't recognized
> : by the system (I think). 
> 
> : Thus, even storage on 3.5" 1.44MB floppies is much easier on Macs than PCs. 
> 
> : Anyone think this is true?
> 
> not realy, it's not to hard to figure uot is there's a floppy in the 
> drive on a pc either. just look. I suspect the main reason that the macs 
> have the system know about floppies, and make them almost impossable to 
> eject. (except the well known paperclip that is not far from any mac) is 
> so the prosumably ignorent users would me unable to interfiere(sp) with 
> important disk operations. 

Sheesh.  Read the post.  He said the DOS SYSTEM didn't recognize when a
floppy is inserted, not the person.  If you want to eject a Mac floppy,
select its icon on the desktop and choose "Eject Disk" from the menu bar;
or if you want to unmount it; choose "Put Away."  The only time you can't
unmount a floppy is if an application has a file open on it, and thus is
still in use.  You can eject a floppy in use, but be prepared to put it
back in when you try to save your work and the system needs to write to
it.  This works even on my ZIP disks and CD ROMs.  Can't write to CD-ROMs
of course.

> the single reason that this is not the case in the PC world is the price 
> of the hardware. People may go off about liking the provlage of pushinh 
> the little red button whenever they want. But honestly the mac flopples 
> cost nearly 2x as much as the PC ones. Presumably some of this is because 
> MACS are a smaller market but. still...
>         toodles,
>                 Ian

Are you referring to the floppy drives costing 2x as much?  Or the
floppies themselves?  Since the floppy disks are the same, I'll assume you
mean the drive mechanism.  Is this really an issue since all machines, PCs
and Macs, (excepting some homebrew PCs and Mac subnotebooks) come with the
requisite floppy drives.

David Findley
davidf@spotty.umsl.edu