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From: g-golub@rocky.cs.wisc.edu.CS.WISC.EDU (Joshua Golub)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Mystery Disk Icon
Summary: Diskette icon has changed
Message-ID: <5968@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 13 Jul 88 06:07:33 GMT
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Reply-To: g-golub@rocky.CS.WISC.EDU (Joshua Golub)
Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
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It all started when I upgraded to System 6.0. . . (sigh)
     Actually, the upgrade's fine, I haven't had many incompatibility
problems, but somewhere along the line an icon disappeared.  When there is
a floppy in the internal drive of my Mac II, it's desktop icon is not the
old standard diskette picture, but a front view of the Mac II with an arrow
pointing to the internal drive slot (the right one).
     What surprises me is that I can't find that particular icon in the
finder, all I can find is the old standard diskette icon.  Did apple somehow
localize the diskette icon to the Mac II?  What does an SE owner see?
     I'm running a 2MB Mac II with a CMS 140MB internal HD, system 6.0, and
usual gang of inits. (I can't find the icon in any inits either)  The hard
disk icon is that of a Mac II also, but it's always been that way, thanks
to the CMS driver.
 
     BTW: I'd definitely recommend CMS hard drives for the software and
aparrent reliability, as well as the price and speed, but their customer
relations are really, terribly bad.  The phone answerers know nothing, and
there are no phones in the lab(?!) so you can't talk to someone with a
functioning brain.  I had disk problems a while back, and the first time
the drive was sent back they returned it, claiming they couldn't find a
problem that was readily aparrent.  I sent it back again and called them
(over the course of three days, at my own expense) to make sure it was
really getting fixed, and probably wasted my time.  I finally succeded in
getting a phone-answerer to walk into the lab and ask them what was wrong,
all I got back was confirmation that they were shipping me a new drive.
Total down time -- 32 days.  (And they claim 48hr turnaround!!)  Flame off.

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