| The year: 1984.
"Welcome to Macintosh."
A long wait as the disk grinds away...
Finally, the desktop appears. Command-E. My System disk, pops out. My Program disk, MacWrite, pops in. Grinding.
MacWrite pops out. Message: "Please insert disk: 'System 2.1'". System Disk pops in.
Doubleclick on the icon of the disk, MacWrite.
System disk pops out. Message: "Please insert disk: 'MacWrite'". MacWrite pops in. A little grinding.
MacWrite pops out. Message: "Please insert disk: 'System 2.1'". System Disk pops in.
Double-click on the MacWrite application icon.
System disk pops out. Message: "Please insert disk: 'MacWrite'". MacWrite pops in. A little grinding.
MacWrite pops out. Message: "Please insert disk: 'System 2.1'". System Disk pops in. A little grinding.
System disk pops out. Message: "Please insert disk: 'MacWrite'". MacWrite pops in. A little grinding.
MacWrite pops out. Message: "Please insert disk: 'System 2.1'". System Disk pops in. A little grinding.
System disk pops out. Message: "Please insert disk: 'MacWrite'". MacWrite pops in. A little grinding.
MacWrite pops out. Message: "Please insert disk: 'System 2.1'". System Disk pops in. A little grinding.
System disk pops out. Message: "Please insert disk: 'MacWrite'". MacWrite pops in. A little grinding.
I think you get the idea. This could repeat many more times before the program was ready and you got a text document open. But it would happen in the end! This was one of the worst parts about it. If a disk-swapping nightmare was in progress, it wasn't something happening wrong. | 
