It's a 27" late 2009 iMac. The slot's not much wider than a CD, and with
the foam rubber guard in the way, there's about 0 chance it'll come out on
its own just from gravity. ... Guess there's no other way than to place
the unit on its side, fish around with a paper clip, and hope to get
lucky. That should keep the student busy for days...


> I don’t know what model iMac it is, but all the Macs I have dealt with
> have a long narrow short-bristled brush strip on each side of the slot
> (not rubber).  So you can part it and look behind it if you’re delicate.
>
> On Nov 4, 2014, at 5:11 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>
>> There's a rubber berm at the front slot that's intended to block dust
>> from
>> coming into the unit. Doesn't look like there's any way yo insert
>> anything
>> into it. Certainly no way to 'get lucky' and grab it or have it 'fall
>> out'. Argh. I knew this would happen one day.
>>> I’m guessing not…although if you can see it through the slot you might
>>> be
>>> able to slip a thin knife blade or something in and tease it out. You
>>> might need to turn/tilt it to get the card to slid up against the entry
>>> slot first.
>>>
>>> It’s gonna be one of those “ya gotta get lucky” things I think.
>>>
>>>> On Nov 4, 2014, at 3:32 PM, Carl Hoefs
>>>> <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Without looking, a new student in our lab slid his SD memory card into
>>>> the CD slot on his iMac by mistake. And it went all the way in. Kinda
>>>> makes you wonder how many people have done that before, as they’re
>>>> adjacent to each other. Anyway, is there any known way to go about
>>>> extracting it without taking the entire iMac apart?
>>>> -Carl
>>>
>>>
>>> -----------------------------------------------
>>> There are only three kinds of stress; your basic nuclear stress,
>>> cooking
>>> stress, and A$$hole stress. The key to their relationship is Jello.
>>>
>>> neil
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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