• Digital Mark@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    8 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
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      8 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.

      • Digital Mark@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        8 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.

    • ToxicDivinity [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      8 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

    • frogmint@beehaw.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      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?

      • Digital Mark@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        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
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          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.