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From: burton@umbc5.umbc.edu (Mr. Joel Burton; HONORS COLL (U))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hard drive required for System 7.0?
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Date: 10 Apr 90 03:16:57 GMT
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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?

At a recent user group meeting, and Apple rep presenting info on System
7.0. Yes, it does need 2 MEGS.. period.. end of story. However, he said
that it *should* be possible to boot using a series of floppies,  but I
think even working with system 6 on floppies is sort of like driving the
Indy in a Yugo.

Apparently, Apple will be shipping only 2 meg Macs soon (according to him,
not from any inner divinity.)

Does anyone know the future of floppies?

[P.S.] I am not at all affiliated w/Apple & I could be all wrong!

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