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btgsch@rmplc.co.uk (ric) wrote:

>> alan.frame@acm.org (Alan W. Frame) wrote:
>> 
>> >[It's traditional at this point to reply "I remember the days
>> >when you could fit the System Folder and MacWrite and Macpaint
>> >on a floppy *and* still have space left for data; *and* it was
>> >only a 400K floppy!"]

>> But you never could.
>> 
>> <nostalgia>
>> I bought the original 128k Mac in 1984, and ordered the second (external)
>> floppy drive. The external drive didn't arrive until a week after the Mac,
>> so in the meantime you had to eject the system disk and insert the MacWrite
>> or MacPaint disk. The Mac would then require you to shuttle between the two
>> floppies about eight times while opening the application, then yet more
>> times when you wanted to save a file.
>> 
>> MacWrite was limited to documents of about eight pages. And those
>> new-fangled 3.5" disks cost 50 quid for a box of ten.
>> 
>> Try telling that to the youth of today.
>> </nostalgia>

>Hang on, Macwrite 2.2 is 66k, and a minimal instal of 6.0.8 is 348k,
>so I'd have thought that earlier versions would easily fit on a 400k
>floppy 

It did, but not on the same floppy as the System Folder & Finder.

Ben

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