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From: sasg0244@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steven Arthur Sivier)
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Subject: Re: The future of the past mac
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francis@arthur.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes:
>gone high-density).  When System 7 comes out, the question will be moot,
>since nobody will be able to put systems on their floppies.

is this true? what happens with a hard disk crash then? i think we'd
have to be able to boot from a floppy. if not i'd think that would
be reason enough to avoid system 7.

Steve Sivier