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From: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Bogus IIci review in Washington Post
Message-ID: <1990Jan7.214556.22421@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Date: 7 Jan 90 21:45:56 GMT
References: <774@gandalf.littlei.UUCP>
Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.oswego.edu (Boyd Ostroff)
Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY
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In article <774@gandalf.littlei.UUCP> davidl@leonardo.intel.com (David D. Levine) writes:
>On any other Mac I've used, if there's a floppy in the floppy drive at boot
>time, either the machine successfully boots off of the floppy (in which
>case you can eject it and reboot) or it puts up the little disk-with-an-X
>and ejects it, then boots off the hard disk.  

On all the macs that I regularly use (512E, Plus, II) if you turn the 
computer off, hold down the mouse button and then turn it back on the
disk will eject *before* the machine tries to boot.  Isn't this also the
case with the IIci?

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