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Today’s kids don’t have to worry about turning off your PC before you can unplug your mouse or keyboard
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My favorite fucked-up thing from the past was the Macintosh circa 1990. The disk drive on this thing had no eject button -- to eject a disk, you just did the oh-so-fucking-intuitive thing of dragging the disk icon over the trash can icon. But they did very conveniently place the big knobby power button for the whole computer (which looked exactly like an eject button) right above the disk drive. I spent a year constantly powering off the computer every time I wanted to just eject the disk.
Fun fact. The ADB Apple Desktop Bus connector had four pins. Power, ground, one for the power button, and one for all other functionality. That’s daisy chained keyboards, mouses and drawing tablets. All data in one single pin. And one for the power button.
"Ah yes, just delete the disk to eject the disk drive. Of course!"
That's such a crime against UI LOL.
Especially because I am sure it feels very scary to people with important data on the disk.
That would be a neat shortcut for formatting it though lol.
Exactly! I mean, why wouldn't you think that doing that would delete everything on the disk instead of just ejecting it?
At the university I went to in the 90s, there was a bank of 5 Macs. Each one had a printed label next to the power button instructing users that it wasn't the disk eject button.
Apple has always been an excellent example of how not to design a UI.
I would love to chain up some Apple UX/UI designers and force them to watch my 90 yo mother try to use her fucking iPhone.