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adrian mason <ade@craftmcr.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Ive just been given an old SE 20m HD 2m Ram  sys 6.0.1 and I want to try
> to run sys 7 and clarisworks plus a network to a LC475 Any body rate my
> chances?
> 
> Can you tell me whether an se will run sys7 Will I need more ram? or
> shall I try to run C/wks under sys 6

You will definitely need more (4MB) RAM to run System 7.  Maybe a bigger
HD too - 20MB is unlikely to have any room left for applications or
documents!

Any version of System 7 will run slower than System 6 and use more RAM.

Don't bother with 7.0; it's too slow on a 68000. 7.1 is pretty quick,
but I would recommend either sticking with what you've got or possibly
upgrading to 6.0.7 or 6.0.8 (which include TrueType).

The latest version that will work on an SE is 7.5.5, but I haven't tried
it on anything that old.  I would guess that it would use even more RAM
and more than 20MB hard disk space.

BTW, I would recommend WriteNow [v?] or MacWrite II v2.0 rather than
ClarisWorks for word processing on a 68000 Mac.  ClarisWorks is more
suited to an LC or better.
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