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Two seconds is the time it takes in Formula 1 for mechanics to lift a car, change four tires, and put the car back in movement. It is difficult to believe that
by coliveira 7y ago
Two seconds is the time it takes in Formula 1 for mechanics to lift a car, change four tires, and put the car back in movement. It is difficult to believe that you cannot swap flop drives in less than that time.
- skykooler 7y agoDoing it F1 style, you'd have one person take out the first floppy while a second person inserts the second floppy.
- zeeZ 7y agoYou need a third person to push the button that ejects the floppy.
- hdfbdtbcdg 7y agoAnd a fourth playing the game.
- pmccarren 7y agoAnd you'd need a fourth person to push the floppy in.
- aidenn0 7y agoI can do a 3.5" in less than 2s, but I assume they were testing with 5.25" Those usually had a lever rather than a button so it was a 4 step process rather than a 3 step process: 3.5": - Press button - Remove Disk - Insert Disk 5.25" - Turn lever - Remove Disk - Insert Disk - Turn lever Add to this the fact that 5.25" floppies were less rigid, and expensive enough that you don't want to damage, and it takes a lot longer. That being said, I think I did get down to just barely under 2s when I was restoring my hard disk from 97 5.25" floppies after getting a virus (the backup program being used bypassed DOS's system calls for accessing the disk, and polled multiple times per second so you didn't even need to press a key after inserting the disk).