Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space

• TedZanzibar@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  (A)bort, ®etry, (F)ail?

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  • IcedRaktajino@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    R-R-R-R-R-(sigh)-A

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    • TedZanzibar@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah I was wondering the same thing. Didn’t Abort just cancel trying to read that sector, while Fail would cancel the entire operation?

      Nope, I looked it up. Abort would completely abort the whole thing, while Fail was supposed to return an error code to the program so that it could decide what to do next. Like Ignore but less crashy.

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      • IcedRaktajino@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Thanks for that. All I could remember was that pressing F just meant that I had to press A anyway so I just pressed A.

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