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From: slammy@admiral.UUCP (Dave Litchman)
Subject: Re: Hard-drive on a 520ST?
Reply-To: slammy@admiral.UUCP (Dave Litchman)
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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1991 00:07:54 GMT
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lch3e@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU (Lauren C. Howard) writes:

> Can a hard-drive (spec. Megafile 30) be used with a stock 520ST?
> Will there be enough memory left to run WordPerfect? Timeworks DTP?
You will have almost the same amount of free memory with a hard drive as 
without. The driver only takes up a few bytes. If you could run Word 
Perfect and Timeworks DTP before (which I suspect you could) you can 
still run them with a hard drive, only MUCH, MUCH faster.

/e
> 
> Why are the Megafile 30's being sold off so cheap right now?  I know
> they're discontinued; but is there anything wrong with them?  Are
> they upgradeable?
> 
> lch3e@holmes.acc.virginia.edu


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