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[-] mdhughes@lemmy.ml 16 points 7 months ago

This story is a lie.

There's no "computer icon". Dragging the System disk to trash ejects it on a classic Mac. If you burrow down into System, you can try deleting system files… which are locked and can't be deleted.

You can test this yourself on Infinite Mac

[-] thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 41 points 7 months ago

i mean, this story sounds like it's from pre-release testing, or maybe a trade show demo showing a pre-release build. it not working this way in the release version just makes sense, and doesn't mean this is a fake story.

[-] mdhughes@lemmy.ml -4 points 7 months ago

No such demo happened. They unveiled the 128K with that System 1.0 on stage at a special event. The Lisa has a different UI, but also can't do what's described.

[-] Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That doesn't mean it didn't happen. It just means that the demo wasn't public.

[-] mdhughes@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

Yes your uncle who works at Nintendo ^W Apple told you about it.

[-] ToxicDivinity@hexbear.net 11 points 7 months ago

The story seems to be referencing the first time apple had regular people try it which may have been in a focus group or at some kind of publicity event. If this did happen I'm sure they made safeguards against it before selling it

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I have to agree. The Macintosh 128k didn't even have an internal HDD. Everything was run on 3.5" floppies. Heck they may have invented the 3.5" floppy, idk. As you said, dragging the system dick icon to the trash on a 128k was literally the easiest way to eject the disk.

My father still owns one, that may actually work. He also got 2 extra external floppy drives for the thing. He also has an Apple ]|[

[-] frogmint@beehaw.org 1 points 7 months ago

Well if the story is true, wouldn't they have just fixed the software, so it would have never seen the light of day?

[-] mdhughes@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

If they had "fixed" it, there would be a "My Computer" icon. No such thing exists, go TRY the Infinite Mac I linked above.

[-] frogmint@beehaw.org 1 points 7 months ago

Unless this story is from preproduction software and they got rid of the computer icon. Or maybe that detail was misremembered and it was actually a disc icon.

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