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From: carsup@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Fisher Library support)
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Subject: Re: Mac Classic Pricing
Message-ID: <1990Oct28.011655.2396@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>
Date: 28 Oct 90 01:16:55 GMT
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In article <1990Oct26.145334.29139@wpi.WPI.EDU> mute@wpi.WPI.EDU (Joshua Thompson Brandt) writes:
>
>I am a student, and therefore don't have much money. I'm not sure about
>the statistics on a Mac Classic, but I run a Macintosh Plus with an 
>enternal floppy, and have no problem playing games, writing occasional
>papers, and running small Hypercard stacks. I have several system disks,
>one with a tiny system, almost completely deviod of DAs and such, and with
>only virus protection INITs and a few other utilities. I use this one 
>for games and playing sounds, using Mac CD from the system disk. 
>I have a second system disk, with a few of my favorite fonts installed, and
>some handy DA's and a few more INITs than the other disk. I use
>this one for Hypercard and word processing.
>I haven't really had any problems with this. I have a Fuji external floppy,
>which I also haven't had any problems with. I do have loads of floppys
>lying around on my desk, but that's pretty normal. 
>However, I really wouldn't like to be running it WITHOUT an external
>floppy....                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Just a thought:  in theory, you *CAN* run Word on a *single* floppy on the
Classic.  The reason why Josh couldn't is because he only has 779K on his
floppy whereas the Classic owner could have 1404K on his/her floppy.
Then again, maybe Josh just doesn't like Microsoft and does one better in 
using WriteNow instead!  Anyway, WriteNow is *THE* choice for floppy based
systems, IMHO of course. :)

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