• noughtnaut@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Seconded.

    I’ve read most of folklore.org and do not recall any such story. In fact, how do you even “drag the computer to the waste basket” as the first/only icon would be the System floppy and afaik they’ve never had / still don’t have a “computer icon”. 🤔

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      3 months ago

      First image I could find of the desktop and there is computer icons right there.

      If dragging one of those to wastebasket at the bottom right crashed the computer, it would fit the description of the event.

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        3 months ago

        I wonder if the first attempt was simply dragging that Mac System Software to the trash. Not “the computer icon”, but it’s possible the anecdote was/is slightly misremembered by John

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          3 months ago

          Dragging a floppy to the bin would simply eject it… 🤷 Well all right, maybe the story is from before the intro of the “Insert disk Foo”.