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andrewunix

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Wed, 08 Sep 2004 17:48:42 GMT, suggested:
: Mike Rivers wrote:
: Doesn't this go all the way back to the floppy disk? I seem to
: remember having to click on something to eject the floppy (there was
: no mechanical button an a Mack floppy drive) but I don't remember
: dragging the floppy icon to the trash can.
:
: I believe there have always been two ways to do it. You can either
: click on the disk icon to select it, and then select Eject from the
: drop-down menu (or hit Apple-E), or you can drag to the trash.
: So theoretically you could use a Mac for years and years and never
: know or care about trash-means-eject. But most people end up
: using it just because it's quicker.

The problem with using Eject from the menu was that it would leave a ghost
icon of the disk on the desktop, and then the user would accidentally
click on it and then the system would demand that the disk be reinserted.
In a classroom environment this was a problem, because the floppy may have
already left the room with a student from a previous class, and then you
had to cancel out of a bunch of dialogs.

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