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Subject: Re: Should 64K ROMs be supported?
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Date: Fri, 16-Jan-87 14:05:44 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 16 14:05:44 1987
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Summary: There are other options

>Suppose one has a 512k Mac, and has managed to come up with $300 to spend.
>If the choice is buy an upgrade, and have no money left for software, or
>buy $300 worth of software, a lot of people will take the software.

There ARE other options to choose from, ya know, other than buying the upgrade
or buying the software to have a more powerful system.  I have a "vanilla 512K
Mac".  What I really needed was just additional disk space and I didn't want to
spend much more than $200.  The solution?  An 800K external drive.  Now I can
use double-sided disks AND run some of the software written for the 128K ROM
provided I have Finder 5.1 or newer installed on the disks.

John O'Malley

(Go ahead and send me mail to tell me what I did wrong... Yes, this IS my first
posting to the net.)