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Article #2233Re: Mac 512K - Usable?
From: Rebecca and Rowland
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 00:00
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 00:00
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Ben Lovejoy <ben@lovejoy.demon.co.uk> 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.
Indeed - but you can get all three on an *800K* disc.
[snip]
> MacWrite was limited to documents of about eight pages.
Ah, but not on a 512K Mac (half a megabyte? Luxury!)
> And those
> new-fangled 3.5" disks cost 50 quid for a box of ten.
<screams>
Rowland.
[snip]
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