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From: rsholmes@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Rich Holmes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: The future of the past mac
Message-ID: <1990Nov14.150222.17789@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 14 Nov 90 15:02:22 GMT
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In article <1990Nov13.221010.5998@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> sasg0244@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steven Arthur Sivier) writes:
>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.

I seem to recall hearing you'll be able to put (at least a minimal) Sys. 7 on
(at least a FDHD) floppy.

But even if not -- you can still boot Sys. 6 from a floppy to resurrect your
Sys. 7 hard disk.
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