[comp.sys.mac.misc] Small bug in Sys 7 install: Double Disk Insert

jba@gorm.ruc.dk (Jan B.Andersen) (05/23/91)

ebert@parc.xerox.com (Robert Ebert) writes:

>P.S.  Doing an install onto a floppy on a one-drive Mac sure was a treat!
>Aside from all the thumb twiddling and disk swapping, I discovered a truly
>interesting "error" condition.  On two of the disk swaps, the disk would
>get ejected and the "please insert <other disk>" alert would appear.  Almost
>immediately after this, a "please insert <just ejected disk>" dialog appeared!
>The second dialog was placed above the first, so you could see both of them...

I saw that too...  I was using a portrait monitor on a IIsi. Looked like it
didn't center the top-most alert correctly.
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