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From: jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hard drive required for System 7.0?
Message-ID: <40169@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 10 Apr 90 00:47:55 GMT
References: <2XDH5TV@xavier.swarthmore.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <2XDH5TV@xavier.swarthmore.edu> irilyth@cs.swarthmore.edu
(Josh Smith) writes:
>   According to a recent AppleLink mailing recently received by our Campus Rep
>here at Swarthmore, "...to run System 7.0, you MUST have 2 megs AND a hard
>disk...period...end of story!!! There are NO plans to support floppy based
>systems!!!!" What does this mean? Will Apple stop building Macs with floppy
>drives? Is this for real, anyway? WHAT'S GOING ON?

"Floppy-based system" just means the machine is booted from a System Folder
on a floppy disk. A hard-disk-based system can still use floppies for
applications and data files.

By the way, "...NO plans to support floppy-based systems!!!!" may be true,
but if so, it's news to me. Would you mind emailing me exactly who sent
out this AppleLink mailing? Thanks.
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