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real-address-in-sig@flurbletigibbet.rhubarb.foobar (Rebecca and 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.

Aye, lad, we used t'dream of 800k floppies.

>> MacWrite was limited to documents of about eight pages.

>Ah, but not on a 512K Mac (half a megabyte?  Luxury!)

I went the whole hog and upgraded directly from the 128k original to a Mac
Plus with a whole *megabyte* of RAM. More than enough to run any software.
Even the Switcher (remember that?) for
almost-if-you-half-closed-your-eyes-mistakable-for-multi-tasking.

>> And those new-fangled 3.5" disks cost 50 quid for a box of ten.

><screams>

And since there were no Mac hard drives in those days, you just had to keep
buying them, too. But it was only about a year until I got a massive 20Mb
hard drive - more than twice the size of the hard drive I'd had on my
previous non-Mac machine. Mind you, the system & finder took up almost 700k
of that ...

Ben

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