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Article #11588Re: Hard drive required for System 7.0?
From: Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 1990 00:47
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 1990 00:47
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In article <2XDH5TV@xavier.swarthmore.edu> irilyth@cs.swarthmore.edu (Josh Smith) writes: > According to a recent AppleLink mailing recently received by our Campus Rep >here at Swarthmore, "...to run System 7.0, you MUST have 2 megs AND a hard >disk...period...end of story!!! There are NO plans to support floppy based >systems!!!!" What does this mean? Will Apple stop building Macs with floppy >drives? Is this for real, anyway? WHAT'S GOING ON? "Floppy-based system" just means the machine is booted from a System Folder on a floppy disk. A hard-disk-based system can still use floppies for applications and data files. By the way, "...NO plans to support floppy-based systems!!!!" may be true, but if so, it's news to me. Would you mind emailing me exactly who sent out this AppleLink mailing? Thanks. -- ====== jeanne a. e. devoto ======================================== jdevoto@apple.com | You may not distribute this article under a jdevoto@well.UUCP | compilation copyright without my permission. ___________________________________________________________________ Apple Computer and I are not authorized | CI$: 72411,165 to speak for each other. | AppleLink: SQA.TEST
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!jdevoto From: jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Hard drive required for System 7.0? Message-ID: <40169@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 10 Apr 90 00:47:55 GMT References: <2XDH5TV@xavier.swarthmore.edu> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 22