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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: wordprocessor for 512k
Message-ID: <1991Jan2.000731.13625@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 2 Jan 91 00:07:31 GMT
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In article <1991Jan1.222857.13624@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>, dcc@ccvr1.ncsu.edu (Daniel Carr) writes:
|> the best thing you can do with a 512k mac is get an init called "HD 20"
|> and a external 800k drive (double-sided). put the hd 20 init on a 400k boot
|> disk and then you will be able to recognize 800k disks in the external
|> 800k drive.  you double your disk space right there!  also, if you can
|> get one, you can hook the old HD 20 (non-scsi external 20 meg hard
|> drive) to the external drive port.  unfortunately, i don't think you can
|> connect both an external 800k drive and the HD 20 at the same time.
[etc.]
Minor correction: the old HD-20 had a diskette drive port on the back so
you could do just this. I'm not sure how easy it is to find one of these
drives - Sun remarketing sells them for more than an equivalent SCSI drive,
and they really are slow by comparison.
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu