[Paisan]

'recycle bin' of her computer and then emptied it -- she thought it meant the records would be recycled and used again."


I couldn't agree more. Recycle is just bad terminology for the 'literalists' among us...

[Lexinom]

Apple Computer, on the Apple IIGS GS/OS desktop, as well as on the Mac, called it "Trash." The icon was a metal garbage can; there was no doubt about its function.

I'm not a Mac user so don't know if they still use that term.