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to: Tom Walker
from: David Drummond
date: 2003-12-15 22:24:42
subject: Re: Knoppix

Al salaam a'alaykum Tom

14 Dec 03 08:13, Tom Walker wrote to David Drummond:

 ->>  TW>  IBM used to have motorized Eject Floppy drive on the origional 
 ->>  TW> PS2 computers.

 ->> How did one eject the diskette?

 TW> As I recall it could be done remotely like the MAC, with proper 
 TW> software of course, but it also had a Eject button on the Drive like the 
 TW> ZIP drives have.

On a Mac one drags and drops the diskette icon in the Trash icon.

When PS/2s were in vogue they had no such icons. Did one have to type
"eject" at the prompt or something?

Regards,
David

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