[EEMac]

I loved my Mac at the time! But it was an abusive relationship. Crashes weren't constant, exactly, but they were random and pervasive.

I got trained to automatically save my file at every single pause in my typing. Finish a sentence? Command-S. Minor edit? Command-S. Paste? Command-V, Command-S. I only noticed when I moved to another computer and muscle memory stopped working.

[michaelmrose]

I remember playing with 3D Studio Max on windows 95 I think as a teenager after waiting for it to download over dialup for days. Windows 95 was generally sort of OK but it only ran on 95 in theory as it was designed for windows NT. Under 95 it crashed every 30 minutes so after every step I did I compulsively hit save. I don't think I have even really broken that habit at this point. Thus began the multi day wait to download windows NT as well.

[WalterGR]

> I got trained to automatically save my file at every single pause in my typing.

Growing up with home computers in the 80s, I still have this habit. I suspect (without evidence) that it's pretty common. :)

[badsectoracula]

Same here, though replace "Command+S" with "F2"(DOS)/"Ctrl+S"(Win). Also counting to 10 before turning off the PC because of software-based disk write cache :-P

[dcminter]

> software-based disk write cache

Linux users of a certain era had to overcome compulsive use of 'sync ; sync ; sync' for much the same reason.

[girvo]

I used to do the same on our Windows 95 box, and later 98 and 2000s. Hard habit to break to be honest. 3DS Max, Photoshop, Word, they'd all randomly crash on me for various reasons!

[fnord77]

sometimes the crash would happen during the save. then the file was corrupted