🚀 go-pugleaf

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Last week I posted a message grumbling about 2 minor annoyances on
the Mac...first that floppies seem to become unreadable too often;
second that the clock is inaccurate...

1) *Most* people that responded have not had floppy problems as I have
had. Some had suggested that a misaligned head is the culprit...I
doubt this since we have 5 macs at our site and ANY time we find a
bad disk we try then on ALL drives. The disk should work on the drive
it was written on, no?
    Another thing I noticed about Mac floppies : On other machines,
when you have a bad disk, it's just plain bad. Plain and simple. On
the Mac I have discovered that if a disk is "unreadable" (upon
inserts into the drive; and on different machines), that *sometimes*
throwing the disk across the room causes it to work afterwards!
...which still akes me think the Mac's floppy read routines are
FAR too fussy.

2) As for the inaccurate time clock...some people indicated that they
have not experienced any problems with the clock; others asked "Who
cares? what are you doing that you need it to be so accurate?". No
I don't *need* it to be accurate. I use it for *nothing* actually.
It just annoys me that for five grand I can't get something that
tells time as good as a $10 watch. Plain and simple.


			-Ray