[OSX-Users] Re: Mystery Icon

[Hugh Glaser]

Surely you got this Les?
It's a floppy.
http://www.google.co.uk/images?&q=floppy+disk
Or a stiffy, as Pieter and I used to say, because they were the first floppies that weren't.

On that page, an Apple version:
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.instructables.com/image/FJT64G5FE1M4UM2/Floppy-Disk-Notepad.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.instructables.com/id/Floppy-Disk-Notepad/&usg=__eGFeBN2_gFxf_pO8KNdxcgvccGc=&h=420&w=560&sz=15&hl=en&start=27&sig2=b-QJmsxOiHC2QOge2x0ctw&zoom=1&tbnid=Uppv8ev53oYJFM:&tbnh=100&tbnw=133&ei=mXOQTeGwFYSKvQP-0bWyDQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfloppy%2Bdisk%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26rlz%3D1G1GGLQ_ENGB321%26biw%3D1056%26bih%3D687%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1

On 28 Mar 2011, at 10:53, Leslie Carr wrote:

> Can anyone help identify this mystery icon? It appears in a number of popular applications, but its design is lost to the mists of time.
> 
> http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/bad/what-is-this-mystery-icon.html
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone

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