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Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]

#535
From: Dave Hwang
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1995 22:20
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>>>>> " " == Dan Pop <Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch> writes:
In article <danpop.807551267@rscernix> Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) writes:
    > In <Anders.Sundin-0408950249250001@aps.orgk2.lth.se>
    > Anders.Sundin@orgk2.lth.se (Anders Sundin) writes:
    >> In article <danpop.807467749@rscernix>, Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan
    >> Pop) wrote:
    >> 
    >>> In <ericb.513.301F92A2@psu.edu> ericb@psu.edu (Eric Bennett)
    >>> writes:
    >>> 
    >>>> In article <MARTUS.95Aug2053524@w20-575-33.mit.edu> Dave Hwang
    >>>> <martus@mit.edu> writes:
    >>>> 
    >>>> Apple's new drivers for the StyleWriter 1200 give you the option
    >>>> of putting a printer icon on the desktop.  For the general case
    >>>> of printing any
   
Not that it's really relevant to the discussion, but I didn't write
that. It was probably Hotel California answering my question about how
to print on a Mac. 

I know nothing about Macs. I had to use one in graphic arts one day to
print some color images. I couldn't figure how to eject the disk. The
"Eject Disk" seems to be the wrong thing to do. I end up with ghost
icons, and it the machine kept asking me for disks I was done using.
I never used a mac before. I sat down at one, and I screwed up. Man, I
must be really stupid to mess up on a Mac. No, wait a minute. It's
Apples' fault for putting that "eject disk" stumbling block as a menu
option, and not giving me an eject button. It's too complicated for me. :^( 

Dave Hwang
martus@mit.edu
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From: Dave Hwang <martus@mit.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]
Date: 04 Aug 1995 22:20:16 GMT
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
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