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 dont 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 youre 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. >>> Im 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. >>> >>> Its 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 theyre >>>> 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk > > _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
