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Article #44959Re: Bogus IIci review in Washington Post
From: Boyd Ostroff
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1990 21:45
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 1990 21:45
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In article <774@gandalf.littlei.UUCP> davidl@leonardo.intel.com (David D. Levine) writes:
>On any other Mac I've used, if there's a floppy in the floppy drive at boot
>time, either the machine successfully boots off of the floppy (in which
>case you can eject it and reboot) or it puts up the little disk-with-an-X
>and ejects it, then boots off the hard disk.
On all the macs that I regularly use (512E, Plus, II) if you turn the
computer off, hold down the mouse button and then turn it back on the
disk will eject *before* the machine tries to boot. Isn't this also the
case with the IIci?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!sunybcs!oswego!ostroff From: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Bogus IIci review in Washington Post Message-ID: <1990Jan7.214556.22421@oswego.Oswego.EDU> Date: 7 Jan 90 21:45:56 GMT References: <774@gandalf.littlei.UUCP> Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.oswego.edu (Boyd Ostroff) Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY Lines: 17