Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!gvlv2!imagine!chris
From: chris@imagine.ADMS-RAD.Unisys.COM (Chris Sterritt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Do you *hate* Mac CD-ROM technology?
Summary: Not at all: blame the disc mastering too!
Keywords: monkey latchkey keyboard
Message-ID: <275@imagine.ADMS-RAD.Unisys.COM>
Date: 30 May 90 19:38:41 GMT
References: <779@limbo.Intuitive.Com> <9740@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1990May25.015742.25489@calgary.uucp>
Reply-To: chris@ADMS-RAD.Unisys.COM (Chris Sterritt)
Organization: Unisys/Automated Document Management Systems, Radnor, PA
Lines: 48

In article <1990May25.015742.25489@calgary.uucp> sharp@cs-sun-fsd.UUCP (Maurice Sharp) writes:
>In article <9740@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0228b@prism.gatech.EDU (FALCO,VINNIE) writes:
>>me copy some PD software from CDROM, and he wanted me to tell him which

>>programs worked..whatever. I made the mistake of doing a 'Get Info' on one
>>of the folders. 10 minutes later (no exxageration) I got the info, and saw
>>that it took up 150 megabytes.
>     Well, that is your fault for using a slow CDROM drive.  I have
>copied 60mb in significantly less time.  Like move the folder over and
>wait a few moments (possibly even a couple of minutes) then it is
>done.

Another problem seems to be in how the disc was layed out and/or mastered.

I have a few discs, and the 'good' ones (Phil&Dave's, WholeEarth) take no time
to insert and come up, get info, etc.  The 'Bad' one (a pre-release of a
public-domain collection) takes about FIVE MINUTES just to load onto the
desktop when I insert it!  And I have the (current) fastest disc drive!

>     These do not seem like valid 'I Hate CDROM' comments.  In fact, I
>am very leary of a posting that asks for Hate comments.  Perhaps one
>that asked for constructive criticism.  Sounds like an Apple maligner
>may be loose on this group.


Hear hear, EXCEPT let's look at (one of) the original complaints:

>>Apple should fix the finder so that operations can be aborted with
>>command period, (i.e. like Get Info).

This I think we can all agree with, and APPLE HAS BEGUN TO DO IT!!!!!!!!!
I can't tell you how glad I was the other day when the following occured.
I'd carefully put away a (floppy) disk I had ejected, however I'd left its
'ghost' on the desktop.  I double-clicked some application (on my hard disk)
to launch it, and was given the dreaded 'Please insert the floppy you just
put away' modeless dialog box.  Well, friends, I just hit the old Command-.
and the dialog box WENT AWAY!  AND THE APPLICATION LAUNCHED!  HURRAY!

	Thanks, Apple!  That was great.


	-- chris sterritt

============================================================================
= Chris Sterritt - "Kleenex makes my nose run" - chris@adms-rad.unisys.com =
= "The secret is dirt. D-I-R-T. 'D' as in dirt, 'I' as in dirt, 'R' as in  =
=  dirt, 'T' as in Orange Pekoe." -- Churchy LaFemme                       =
============================================================================