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One solution to jammed discs in laptop Macs
You don't even need to wait for the OS to start up. As soon as you press the power button, start holding down the (physical, not virtual) trackpad button. When it goes to search for startup disks (or boot the one you set in Startup Disk), it will eject all removable media, including CDs and DVDs. This goes all the way back to the Mac 128.
Not quite that old
The 'hold-down mouse button to eject insert-able media' trick only dates back to the introduction of Open Firmware.
Prior to that, you needed a paper clip or to press the physical button on the drive before the OS booted. As for the Mac 128k, you're probably thinking of the behavior that you would encounter when booting a Macintosh with a non-system disk in the floppy drive: it would eject at the Happy Mac.
Not quite that old
i had an old power mac running 7.5.1 (and one that ran 7.5.5 before that), the BOTH could eject discs on boot. and i don't think open firmware was being used back when macs were in two pieces and lacking usb ports XP |
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