Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

["Charles A. Plater" <cplater@ameritech.net>]

On Sun, 26 Apr 1998 9:10:37 -0400, Mitchell Spector wrote
(in message <24APR199817265168@vax2.concordia.ca>):
>     I also find it annoying if you power down the machine (the IIgs as well 
> in this case) and forget to remove your floppy disk. This means spending 
> time searching for a paper-clip and straightening it out to do a manual 
> ejection. Power blackouts can be another problem if you have to get your 
> disk out and somewhere else. In theory the safety feature of the drive (not 
> letting us humans have buttons to press) is a good one, but in practice it 
> is a pain. People should have enough common sense _not_ to eject a disk 
> while the R/W LED is active. The same goes for CD-ROM drives (many Mac 
> models also do not have a CD ejection button). I know someone who's always 
> finding their CD's "trapped" inside their Mac LC520 and has to pry the 
> drive open with a screw driver. 

Well, from may years running the computer labs at WSU, I can tell you that most 
people don't even have enough commone sense to not force a disk when the 
shutter is causing it to stick (causing the shutter to be left in the drive, 
and the drive ruined)  Also on the wintel half of the house it was much more 
common for disks to become corrupted because students would remove the disk 
without closing their files.

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Charles A. Plater
Systems Analyst Wayne State University