Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!uunet!cti1!greg From: greg@cti1.UUCP (Greg Fabian) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: Being A Modern Mac User (was 16mhz Classic) Keywords: hard drives, bicycles Message-ID: <337@cti1.UUCP> Date: 13 Dec 90 20:19:54 GMT References: <7809@hub.ucsb.edu> Organization: Comprehensive Technologies Int., Arlington VA Lines: 30 I first started using a Mac back in '85 when I was working at The Source - the documentation specialists used them to write the Source User's Manual. At that time we had "Fat Macs" - i.e. a Mac with 512K RAM and two floppy drives. The machine took an excruitiatingly long time to boot. Especially if you encountered a system bomb (happened quite frequently with original copies of MacWrite and Word) and had to restart the machine (that option wasn't available from the desktop menu at that time). It was a machine that was CRYING for a hard disk. I can't tell you how many times I wanted to toss that little beige instrument from hell out the window. Now hard disk drives are so cheap it is almost a SIN not to have one. Life is too short to spend your limited time on earth waiting for the Mac to boot off a floppy or read a really big spread sheet from it. Unless you take particular delight in looking at a watch icon, you owe it to yourself to equip your Mac with a hard disk. From what I see in the papers here, it will cost you an extra $400 for a 40 MB hard disk in a Classic. I am sure you will rapidly make up the $400 in the frustration that you will avoid and the time you will save and enjoy the Mac a lot more. Not to mention window replacement costs. -- Greg Fabian ////////////////////////////////////|\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ CTI (703) 685-5400 | 2121 Crystal Drive | When the going gets weird Suite 103 | the weird turn pro Arlington, VA 22202 greg@cti.com | - Hunter S. Thompson \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\|////////////////////////////////////