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 @JennyFluff @NanoRaptor A very popular device, despite the eject button being on the underside of the machine.  @chrisvest @NanoRaptor software eject & the emergency eject hole on the bottom can only be used with a proprietary iPaperclip    @chrisvest yes yes but why on earth would you want to eject one of our beautiful discs in the first place? @metaphil @chrisvest @NanoRaptor at some point you just want to hold them and admire their pretty translucent cases and cool engineering @metaphil @JennyFluff @NanoRaptor the System 7.5 install MiniDisc could be flipped and had music on the b-side that you could play with QuickTime  @JennyFluff @NanoRaptor and would that be a MacMini that can read (min)disks, or an Mac branded minidisc?      @NanoRaptor "Dana no... It's super cute I want one" "I'm surprised it wasn't a super drive based pun".       @clew @NanoRaptor It's not that the power supplies got bigger, it's the pictures that got smaller! 😎 @NanoRaptor I would love to gut a “wide” Mac mini or AirPort Extreme/Time Capsule and put in a half height floppy drive and #ApplesauceFDC guts for the ultimate 5¼" imaging unit!      @NanoRaptor the 5.25" one in particular looks juuuuust a little like something out of a Cronenberg film  @aburka @NanoRaptor Macs don't have an eject button. The power button was moved to the bottom because users kept pressing it mistakenly thinking it was an eject button.  @NanoRaptor If memory serves me right, 5¼" drives had a gate that needed to be manually closed, while 3½" drives had a physical eject button. @jackerhack@mastodon.social @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social you ejected discs by dragging them to the paper bin. Very intuitive.     @bitnacht @iotar @NanoRaptor that would be 1.99 fee pur ejection and of course each cassette has DRM and so that it can only be played back on that device ;) @iotar As a C64 kid, these are giving me feels. Stuck with the crap tape deck by default, the floppy drive was a prohibitively expensive but much desired peripheral. (Finally got a 1541 mk2, well after I should have just ponied up for an Amiga.)   @iotar @NanoRaptor I believe they got as far as pre-production to ship these with the Apple ][ when they realized they'd put the wrong color logo on the player and had to abandon it.    @iotar @NanoRaptor sigh I wish they still made the one that had two tape decks. and now there's not even a phono input either @iotar @NanoRaptor makes me think of the commodor PETs we had in my elementary school. An Apple PET wouldn’t be the worst idea, especially after the pivot to music adds features for making mixtapes @iotar @NanoRaptor oh, I forgot about the Apple Records thing, barring Apple Computer from using “Apple” branding on new models because the Apple ][ was too musical. No wonder the Apple PET was canceled @iotar @NanoRaptor if thus were an actual Apple device, the eject button would be on the back, flush with the case. @iotar@mastodon.online @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social simplified your design a bit, six buttons is kinda a lot, and there is no real need for headphone jack :neofox_evil:. @iotar @NanoRaptor did they ever made one with reel to reel magentic tape storage?  @iotar @NanoRaptor what? no end-insert with paperclip eject? @iotar @NanoRaptor would be #20PercentCooler if it was a #LTO9-Tape drive for up to 45TB of removeable storage to #backup even the girthiest of #FinalCut-Projects!  @NanoRaptor Ooh this reminds me of An Observation that I accidentally made — the Mac Mini is suspiciously close in its footprint to the (newer, USB-C) iPad Mini:  You are from a nearby parallel reality aren't you? 😯 Please keep posting images of what there, it's fascinating 🙂👍 @simonzerafa not precisely from, but I do have the tools to visit from time to time. Literally the doorway to my workplace: @NanoRaptor That's fantastic! The forest imagery on either side is such a great touch!    @NanoRaptor if they made them out of platinum grey plastic instead of aluminium, I’d buy one immediately! @NanoRaptor TBH, I think Apple should've named the new Mac mini as "Mac nano" instead... But also who the f*k puts the power button *under the computer? - That's worse than the Magic Mouse charging port, cuz most people need to turn on their computer more than once a week! #Apple #MacMini #MacNano #ChargingPort #PowerButton #MagicMouse  @kkarhan @NanoRaptor      @NanoRaptor Clever retouching job there, but astute viewers will remember that the 2024’s paperclip hole is on the bottom of the unit. |
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