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Re:Hacked Together 118 GB Floppy Disk by soylentcola on Friday February 26, 2016 @08:39AM (#11181264)
One of the things that drove me nuts using the earlier Macs at my college was the lack of an eject button. Sure, I understand the reasoning now, but when some crappy Hypercard project I was bungling made the computer freeze, I had no way to remove the floppy short of rebooting the whole computer and waiting or hunting around for a paperclip to push into the little manual eject hole.

Still, seeing how many people in my office will just pull USB flash drives without ejecting them I almost see the appeal now.

Re:Hacked Together 118 GB Floppy Disk by shdon on Friday February 26, 2016 @01:05PM (#11182880)
That latter bit is actually so common that Windows was changed to accommodate it, as Raymond Chen wrote at https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031216-00/?p=...
Re:Hacked Together 118 GB Floppy Disk by digi_owl on Friday February 26, 2016 @05:33PM (#11184796)
I loved how only of my early optical drives had a notch tastefully designed into the front that allowed me to pry the drive open with any sufficiently rigid object, rather than deal with the "pointy thing into small hole" that everything later on had.