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Re:Hacked Together 118 GB Floppy Disk by jgrahamc on Friday February 26, 2016 @02:45AM (#11180273)
To be fair, this was always a problem, also with old computers and OSes. There was no link between pressing eject and magical things happening in the machine to commit data

There was on the Apple Lisa. Or rather ejecting a disk was something you did in the OS which made sure everything was written/closed before allowing the disk out.

Re:Hacked Together 118 GB Floppy Disk by josteink on Friday February 26, 2016 @02:55AM (#11180308)
Yeah I mentioned that in the end of my comment, together with the other issues that would typically lead to.

It was definitely confusing to new users: Insert a disk was something which anyone could do, since it only involved simple movement of a physical object, but ejecting it required you to know and understand the OS.

This was quite an "impedance mismatch" between what should ideally be two symmetrical actions, and I remember I had to help out my mother quite a few times :)