Monday, May 17, 2004

A Floppy named lsadkfjalhkjh

Another good story on Folklore.org. This one is by Bruce Horn who wrote the first Macintosh Finder. In Finder 1.0, the startup disk would appear on the desktop, in the top-right corner, ready to be opened. The Finder would initially select it; once selected, typing would replace the current name. In computer stores the floppy disks often ended up with random character names. It turned out that people who were used to command-line UI such as the IBM PC would first try typing on the keyboard and end up renaming the floppy disk.
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