[Tfug] Yet another OSX "fail" - this one is NOT my fault...

[Jim March]

> Manually eject a floppy on an early mac?  What were you using?  Mac
> floppy drives never had eject buttons, unless you count the paperclip
> hole (or the poorly placed power button on the Centris 610).  The only
> time you ejected the boot disk was to swap disks for copying and
> storage.    It also was a 3.5" floppy and pretty hard to crumple, even
> by today's standards.
>
> - Zack

Damned if I can recall what it was, but there was a keystroke for
doing an eject.

Oh, and the same thing would happen if you were copying a floppy on a
single drive: if, during the copy, there was ANY sort of read error,
goodby charlie, it was as dead as a Windows blue-screen today.

Jim