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OMG the paperclip I logged hundreds of hours on HyperCard. This is wow.

• benj111 8y ago
  My first thought was clippy. Then I remembered how Apple don't like extraneous useless buttons. Edit: The paperclip was to eject a stuck floppy if/when the system crashed.
  • blihp 8y ago
    There was also a functional reason to eliminate the eject button: a somewhat common problem 'back in the day' was that users would remove/eject floppy discs before they were done being written to. This could cause corruption since there could be several seconds of writing after they clicked the save button or copied a file. Even more fun were when applications or the OS would write for a bit, stop for a couple seconds (and at this point some users would see the disc light turn off and eject the disc) to do some other processing then start writing again. Having the computer control when a disc could be ejected did serve a purpose.
    • benj111 8y ago
      True. But there was (and still is) a risk of powering down the computer before writing to disc has finished. Plus I feel that a better user interface could have solved the problem better. But maybe its 30 years too late for that conversation :)