18 Aug
2005
18 Aug
'05
11:08 p.m.
On 19/08/2005, at 2:08 PM, Jim Leonard wrote:
Well, they cribbed from the best. I like to annoy Macintosh
zealots by reminding them that, for over a decade, you put a file
in the Trash to delete it, but when you put a disk in the Trash,
it... pops out of the machine. One would assume putting a disk in
the Trash would format/erase it.
I remember my mother nearly hitting me when I did that to eject a
floppy off her Mac - she was really worried that I was about to
delete all the French assignments she had written (she used to teach
French and these were class exercises). For a machine were
considerable work went into designing the human computer interface,
this one is slightly strange.
I see even with Mac OS-X that this still works, it's just that the
trash can icon changes to be a disk eject icon. Some would argue that
the Mac interface hasn't got better over the years, but there's no
arguing that the engine underneath certainly has.
Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies at kerberos.davies.net.au
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