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Re: Wozniak vs Jobs



supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

>The moment if truth...I am pressing the disk drive ejection
>button...THE DISK WON'T EJECT...second try...THE DISK
>WON'T EJECT...third try...THE DISK WON'T EJECT...I am
>waiting till the disk finishes formatting for further tests...

>O-neato!  Guess what?  AFTER the disk finished formatting,
>the eject command was executed and THEN the disk pops
>out and the its icon is dimmed.

Great! I didn't now this. I had a //gs but with one external 3.5 and two 5.25s.
I should have known. My desk was just around the corner from Apple II Developer
Support (you may remember Dave Lyons and the infamous Matt Deathrage).


>On a PC, the OS can't control.
>On a Mac, the OS is the BOSS and the user can't control.
>On the GS, the OS can be the boss, but it shares control
>   with the user, but takes over completely when it feels it
>   is dangerous.

As long as your GS doesn't have 5.25 drives ;-)

Charlie Springer