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Article #2241Re: Mac 512K - Usable?
From: Rebecca and Rowland
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 00:00
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ric <btgsch@rmplc.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.
[snip]
> >
> 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
Hmm... MacPaint 2.0 is 160K. I've got a very early MacOS (0.1, I
think) that takes 138K including the Imagewriter driver.
Yes, you can get MacPaint, MacWrite, and Macintosh System Software onto
a single 400K floppy (just).
Rowland.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10b5a2,777891c265f4ce49 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b5a2,public From: real-address-in-sig@flurbletigibbet.rhubarb.foobar (Rebecca and Rowland) Subject: Re: Mac 512K - Usable? Date: 1997/12/15 Message-ID: <1d19u86.1tvxaw81vpqtgkN@p23.nas2.is2.u-net.net> X-Deja-AN: 298248170 References: <ndp-0211970113330001@thewest.demon.co.uk> <samnali-0111971417440001@delfloria.demon.co.uk> <ndp-0211970704370001@thewest.demon.co.uk> <B083E47A9668BAA3C@0.0.0.0> <19971104012439450710@newtechd.demon.co.uk> <B0B891A396681B85B8@lovejoy.demon.co.uk> <1d180qf.1n4nu21174187uN@rm-dynf1-152.rmplc.co.uk> Organization: The Pietertje Geeltje van der Sluis fan club Newsgroups: demon.tech.mac