Re: Hard drive required for System 7.0?

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From: William L Nussbaum
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 1990 02:25

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In 41294@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu, from Pete Harlan:

> If, as has been suggested, you wouldn't be able to run system 7.0
> without a hard disk, then there would be no way to FORMAT your hard
> disk when it was installed unformatted, there would be no way to boot
> from a floppy when your hard disk went ou;t [sic -- damn apple
> keyboard] to lunch, etc.

I expect that it's likely Apple will be supplying Sys6 & Sys7 w/ new
computers (is this what's going to happen?), one could resort to Sys6
disks for such duties...

Whatever.
  -- Lee Nussbaum

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From: wln@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (William L Nussbaum)
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Subject: Re: Hard drive required for System 7.0?
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