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Article #535Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]
From: Dave Hwang
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1995 22:20
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!news!martus 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 Message-ID: <MARTUS.95Aug4182016@w20-575-33.mit.edu> References: <3uodl4$359@decaxp.harvard.edu> <ericb.397.3017BA4F@psu.edu> <MARTUS.95Aug2053524@w20-575-33.mit.edu> <ericb.513.301F92A2@psu.edu> <danpop.807467749@rscernix> <Anders.Sundin-0408950249250001@aps.orgk2.lth.se> <danpop.807551267@rscernix> Reply-To: martus@mit.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: w20-575-33.mit.edu In-reply-to: Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch's message of Fri, 4 Aug 1995 15:47:47 GMT