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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>

Ben

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