I love that feature! At school they used to not let us spin up the
hard drives on any of the machines, so I'd copy floppies with the
ghosts.
-James
>Like dragging a floppy disk to the trash? I remember back in '87, when I
>first encountered a Mac. I bought myself a floppy, and wrote a paper on one
>of the school's Macs, and saved the file to the floppy. When I wanted to
>leave, I couldn't remember how my friend had showed me how to eject the
>floppy disk! I finally found the "Eject" command, and got my disk, but there
>was a "ghost" of the disk still on the desktop. I didn't know what to do
>with it, so I left it there. Later, I found out that when somebody else
>would try to eject it properly, they would suffer from the "Please
>insert..." dialog box, and be trapped, because they didn't have the
>floppy--I did! :-) It was absolutely counter-intuitive to drag the icon to
>the trash can. I thought that was how you deleted a floppy. _That_ made
>sense, not drag it to remove it from the desktop! Of course, I discussed
>this with others, and nobody ever did come up with a better analogy that the
>average idiot--er, novice could figure out. :-) (Dragging off the edge of
>the desktop did not occur to me at all) I think the eject command should
>have been broken in two--eject and remove. In any case, this is an example
>of what you described.
>
>So, does the Newton have any of these quirks? What may they be?
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