Ah, I was too young for multiple drives. While my parents probably saw the futility of not having a disk drive at all, shelling out the hundreds of DM for a sec

Ah, I was too young for multiple drives. While my parents probably saw the futility of not having a disk drive at all, shelling out the hundreds of DM for a second one was likely too much. And with no own money I put up with what I had. I nowadays suspect that the grease in my then rather old 1541 must have hardened, because it needed the occasional hard slap on its case to continue loading, it would "hang" in the middle of a disk access until you did that.