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From: halam@umnd-cpe-cola.d.umn.edu (hasseen alam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Bogus IIci review in Washington Post
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Date: 9 Jan 90 04:15:37 GMT
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Reply-To: halam@umnd-cpe-cola.UUCP (Haseen Alam)
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In article <774@gandalf.littlei.UUCP> davidl@leonardo.intel.com (David D. Levine) writes:
>I just read an article entitled "Newest Macintosh Deserves Honors as First PC 
>of the 1990s," which was forwarded to me from Compu$erve.  It was bylined "By 
>T.R. Reid, Washington Post Staff Writer," so I assume it first appeared in
>the Washington Post.
>
>	    "I found numerous Mac programs that wouldn't run on the IIci. It 
>	was bad enough to get that maddening "bomb" icon, which means the 
>	system has crashed.  Even worse, the computer sometimes crashed with a 
>	program disk in the floppy drive. This is bad news, because Apple 
>	forgot to put an "Eject" button on the floppy drive. You're supposed to 
>	eject a disk through system software. But once the system crashes, 
>	there's no way to get the unwanted disk out.
>
>	provides no way to eject it. There is no worse feeling in all of 
>	computerdom than the one that comes from sticking a screwdriver inside 
>	your new $9,000 computer to pry a disk from the floppy drive just to 
>	get the machine to boot up.
>
>
>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.  Is this a serious flaw in the
>IIci, or is this T. R. Reid a bozo who couldn't wait the one second or so
>

I seriously wonder if this T. R. Reid used a Mac long enough.  I have
got my IIci about a week back.  All the applications that I tried so far
worked fine.  I just bought Tetris (color) and it works well too.  My
MS Word 4.0, Excel 2.2, MacPaint 2.0, and everything else worked just
fine.  I prefer "Merit over Might", my IIci does spit out any non-system
disk if I try to boot from it.  Eventhough I did not encounter the
problem, I am pretty sure that if you keep the mouse pressed during
bootup, it will spit out any floppy (system or not).  A I guess T. R.
Reid found the screw driver (one of his power tools to tighten his own
screws) and started poking with it.  Eventhough there is no eject button
it still has the small hole which you can use to insert a paper clip to
eject a floppy, if worse come to the worst.

I feel like sharing one of my favoure quotes here....

" TEHY WHO CAN DO, THEY WHO CAN'T TEACH, AND 
  THEY WHO ONLY THINK THEY CAN CRITICIZE. "


Haseen.

PS:  please believe what you see, not see what you believe....