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To: salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar
Cc: lonniem AT cs DOT utexas DOT edu, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: "Make DJGPP shine bright, make it Windows..." Ugh II.
Message-ID: <19970528.142219.7127.1.fwec@juno.com>
References: <m0wWMoW-000S1qC AT natacha DOT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
From: fwec AT juno DOT com (Mark T Logan)
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 14:22:28 EDT

On Tue, 27 May 1997 17:19:10 +0000 "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)"
<salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar> writes:
>lonniem AT cs DOT utexas DOT edu (Lonnie McCullough) wrote:
>>   I think Macs are hard to use.  You have to drag your floppy disk 
>to
>> the trash bin to get it to eject.  I like having a button to push to
>> get my floppy out.  If the computer locks up (which it does when you
>> do M68k assembly) you have to restart the computer just to get your
>> damn disk back (ahh cs 310 what a great class).  STUPID.
>Not true you can extract the disk mechanically. There are a little 
>hole to 
>introduce a ... I don't remmember the english word, in spanish is 
>"alambre", 
>anyways you simply push an internal mechanism and the disk is ejected 
>even when 
>the machine is off.

This is true.  Push a straightened paper clip into the small hole found
near 
the disk drive and walla! your disk is free of the evil clutches of the
macintosh

fwec AT juno DOT com

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