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From: phil@and.cs.liv.ac.uk (Phil Jimmieson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: ROM Disk and other machines?
Message-ID: <1990Nov15.135909.5438@and.cs.liv.ac.uk>
Date: 15 Nov 90 12:59:09 GMT
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In article <1990Nov9.044036.7385@cs.umn.edu>, kanefsky@cs.umn.edu (Steve Kanefsky) writes:
> In article <1990Nov9.032405.13315@cs.utk.edu> wnn@ornl.gov (Wolfgang N. Naegeli) writes:
[with reference to the ROM disk stuff that's built into the Classic...]
>>It's purpose is simply to boot the machine for use as a diskless 
>>workstation, then switch to a System (7.0 or higher) on an AppleShare 
>>server.  AppleShare 3.0 (or whatever it's going to be called) is supposed 
>>to provide good support for that.  The local diskette drive, if present, 
>>will be available for data files, without a need for disk swapping, and 
>>you can have dozens of fonts available, as many as are installed on the 
>>server.
> 
> Hmm, I wonder if there's some PRAM or something for AppleShare Prep info.
> 

Yes, that's what appears to happen.  I had a Classic for a couple of days that
a friend of mine had bought - and I read about the ROM disk stuff and so tried
it out.  The files that are in the system folder include the Appleshare and
Appleshare prep ones so I tried logging in to a server and getting it to save
my name and password.  The next time I started the Classic up (having set the
startup disk to be the ROM one), it logged into the server for me!!

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