{"id":71,"date":"2007-11-05T12:22:36","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T16:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hbparker\/2007\/11\/05\/nem-has-issue-with-her-laptop\/"},"modified":"2007-11-05T12:22:36","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T16:22:36","slug":"nem-has-issue-with-her-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hbparker\/2007\/11\/05\/nem-has-issue-with-her-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"Nem has issue with her laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Nem had an issue with not being able to get a CD out of her laptop today.&nbsp; I am not sure why, but I decided to help her, I did a google search and found this posting.<br \/>\n&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"post\">\n<div class=\"posttop\">\n<div class=\"username\">kasei<\/div>\n<div class=\"date\">09-26-2004, 10:22 PM<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"posttext\">Try this to get your disk out.<br \/>\nTo eject a disc with Open Firmware commands, follow these steps:<br \/>\n1. Restart the computer.<br \/>\n2. Immediately after the startup sound, press and hold the key combination Command-Option-O-F.<br \/>\nNote: The Command key has the Apple icon on it.<br \/>\n3. Release the keys when you see a white screen that says &#8220;Welcome to Open Firmware.&#8221;<br \/>\n4. At the prompt, type: eject cd<br \/>\n5. Press Return, then wait a few seconds. The disc drive should eject any disc that is present, and &#8220;ok&#8221; appears behind your command when the action is complete.<br \/>\n6. Type: mac-boot<br \/>\n7. Press Return.<br \/>\nYour computer should now start up normally.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/archive\/index.php\/t-90526.html\">from Macrumors.com posted by kasei.<\/a><br \/>\nbetween this posting and Justin&#8217;s very small weak tweasers, she was able to extract not only the CD, but also a piece of plastic mesh.&nbsp; I think it must have been one of the oddest things I have ever seen!\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;font-size: 8px\">Blogged with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flock.com\/blogged-with-flock\" title=\"Flock\" target=\"_new\">Flock<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Nem had an issue with not being able to get a CD out of her laptop today.&nbsp; I am not sure why, but I decided to help her, I did a google search and found this posting. &#8221; kasei 09-26-2004, 10:22 PM Try this to get your disk out. To eject a disc with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hbparker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hbparker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hbparker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hbparker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hbparker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hbparker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hbparker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hbparker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hbparker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}