05-13-2018, 12:33 AM
ka jowct wrote:
When I first started working with a Mac, in 1986, a supposedly computer savvy co-worker told me that one of the biggest problems I would have would be naming and organizing files. I was stunned by that, because we worked for a company that had a 4-digit job number for every job, and the questionnaire/research materials we were going to typeset already had short, easily abbreviated names that we all knew. Different types of studies had short acronym names. Our clients, amazingly, had names.
Luckily you started in 1986 and the HFS file system was in place and folders really were directories in the file system. With MFS there were still folders but they were just an illusion created by the Finder. The disk was just one big flat volume, so you couldn't have a file with the same name in two different folders.
But floppies only held 400K bytes, so there wasn't really room for a whole lot of files.