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From: james968@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (James Hammett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: ROM Disk
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Date: 22 Nov 90 16:52:14 GMT
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We were fiddling with the ROM disk yestereday. We've come up with some 
interesting ideas.

We do computer support work. When we get calls about crashed disks, instead of
having a customer rumage through all of there systems disk, simply to a ROM 
boot.

In the afternoon our service came by and made another comment about using the
Classic as a diskless Appletalk workstation.  It does save startup info on 
mounting servers (including the user ID and password).   That may be one of the
possible uses of the ROM disk.

Then of course maybe some Apple engineers just wanted a way to debugg the System
software.

					James


james968@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu