• aeronmelon@lemmy.worldM
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    11 months ago

    Right up there with the classic Macintoshes with unshielded speakers nested right up against the hard drive and would periodically emit a tone that would reboot the computer.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      My personal favorite was the early-90s Macs that didn’t have an eject button for the floppy drive, but did have a pushbutton power switch … directly above the floppy drive. It took me weeks to stop powering off the computer every time I wanted to eject the floppy. Silly me, not picking up on the oh-so-very-intuitive practice of dragging the floppy icon over to the trash can in order to eject it.

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        11 months ago

        Also extra fun was if the computer was non-functional and had a floppy disk in it, since it required working software in order to eject the disk, you had to do some disassembly in order to retrieve the disk.

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          11 months ago

          Which computer was that? I had a bunch of early apples and Macs, and they all had a little paper clip hole to manually eject the floppy

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      11 months ago

      That sounds like planned obsolescence as the speaker slowly rots the bits spinning nearby