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This story is a lie.
There's no "computer icon". Dragging the System disk to trash ejects it on a classic Mac. If you burrow down into System, you can try deleting system files… which are locked and can't be deleted.
You can test this yourself on Infinite Mac
i mean, this story sounds like it's from pre-release testing, or maybe a trade show demo showing a pre-release build. it not working this way in the release version just makes sense, and doesn't mean this is a fake story.
No such demo happened. They unveiled the 128K with that System 1.0 on stage at a special event. The Lisa has a different UI, but also can't do what's described.
That doesn't mean it didn't happen. It just means that the demo wasn't public.
Yes your uncle who works at Nintendo ^W Apple told you about it.
Well if the story is true, wouldn't they have just fixed the software, so it would have never seen the light of day?
If they had "fixed" it, there would be a "My Computer" icon. No such thing exists, go TRY the Infinite Mac I linked above.
Unless this story is from preproduction software and they got rid of the computer icon. Or maybe that detail was misremembered and it was actually a disc icon.