🚀 go-pugleaf

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.
> 
> <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 
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'ric