Some very forceful PC Card Ejection!

[haydonbeagley]

Hello all, not really a post with an issue but more of an observation of my PowerBook G3 PDQ’s ability to send PC Cards flying when ejecting them.

If this was a Warp Core ejection Star Fleet Enginneering would be impressed!

 

[Volvo242GT]

That is kinda amusing. Wonder if my old PowerBook G3 was the same way. Never tried it, though.

 

[Patrick]

 

[haydonbeagley]

If my PowerBook ejected it's PC-Card in space it would likely cause damage!

 

[Yoda]

Just wanted to add that my PDQ ejects like it's very angry. First time, when I didn't know to catch it as it departed, it spat the PC Card almost 10 feet across the room!

 

[Paralel]

The blackbird Rev C card cage does the same thing. I must admit I was quite surprised the first time it did so.

I have always wondered why they used such force. Were there cards from that time that were so heavy they needed such force to eject properly?

 

[retr01]

 

[AvadonDragon]

The blackbird Rev C card cage does the same thing. I must admit I was quite surprised the first time it did so.

I have always wondered why they used such force. Were there cards from that time that were so heavy they needed such force to eject properly?

I remember being completely unaware of this particular oddity of Macintosh PowerBooks. It surprised the heck out of me the first time I had one spit a card out too! Maybe a really big type III card (that takes up two slots) would need the extra force?

 

[3lectr1c]

I've had a similar thing happen with my iMac G5. It had finished burning a CD for me, then ejected it all the way to the floor.

 

[Chartreuse]

My Powerbook G3 Wallstreet/PDQ is much the same. It's always extremely jolting when you reboot the system with a CF card to PCMCIA adapter left in and it ejects it on boot (since it tries to boot from it and fails). It'll send that card across the room if there's not something to stop it.