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From: wln@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (William L Nussbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hard drive required for System 7.0?
Message-ID: <1990Apr11.022512.11227@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 11 Apr 90 02:25:12 GMT
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In 41294@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu, from Pete Harlan:

> If, as has been suggested, you wouldn't be able to run system 7.0
> without a hard disk, then there would be no way to FORMAT your hard
> disk when it was installed unformatted, there would be no way to boot
> from a floppy when your hard disk went ou;t [sic -- damn apple
> keyboard] to lunch, etc.

I expect that it's likely Apple will be supplying Sys6 & Sys7 w/ new
computers (is this what's going to happen?), one could resort to Sys6
disks for such duties...

Whatever.
  -- Lee Nussbaum

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