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From: wiseman@tellabs.com (Jeff Wiseman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: What is Apple 800K Eject init?
Message-ID: <2915@tellab5.tellabs.com>
Date: 4 Jul 90 20:52:56 GMT
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In article <90180.171250KPURCELL@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK> KPURCELL@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK writes:
>The problem with parking of the heads on 800k floppy disks drives when ejecting
>the disk has been cured in 6.0.4 and later.
>
>You no longer need the INIT or need to worry. My twin floppy SE lasted 18 month
>on 6.0.2 with the INIT and I haven't lost a head (yet!). Its now at 6.0.4.
>
Right! By the time you're using 6.0.4 you have to either be using high density
floppies or a hard drive due to the size of the 6.0.4. system oriented files!
Also, the use of any 800k floopies in the system will also be greatly reduced
(after all, who REALLY wants to use floppies if they have a hard drive :-).

Just curious here, is Apple distibuting 6.0.4 (or 6.0.5) with the Mac Pluses
that they are selling? If so, it seems to me that it would render the machine
almost unusable.

Of course, the good ol' standby that was available on all the original machines
for WYSIWYG (ie. MacWrite) would have a problem on a mac Plus in its current
release :-). Oh well, such is progress!

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