Sick Mac Can't Spit Out Disk

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From: Ed Ravin
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1987 19:32

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My almost-original Mac (well, I did have someone up it to 512k) is no
longer able to spit out the disk when the time comes.  The drive makes the
usual noises, I see the disk lifting up, but it never gets ejected.
Instead, the system immediately senses the presence of a disk in the drive
and thinks I've just re-inserted a disk.  The only way to pull the disk out
was the old paper-clip into the little hole business (also known as the
Emergency Manual Override).

Has this ever happened to anyone?  Can it be easily fixed?  Can I fix it
myself?  Please email responses, as I don't check this newsgroup
regularly...
-- 
Ed Ravin                                  eravin@dasys1.uucp
Programmer-at-Large                      (a.k.a. cmcl2!cucard!dasys1!eravin)

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Subject: Sick Mac Can't Spit Out Disk
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Date: Mon, 24-Aug-87 15:32:09 EDT
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