Assignment V equality

[Huw Davies]

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.

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