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From: wbell@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Warren Bell)
Date: Thu, 21-Jan-88 11:00:09 EST
Message-ID: <1988Jan21.110009.25205@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Fullwrite without hard disks
References: <4708@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: wbell@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Warren Bell)
Distribution: comp

In article <4708@watdragon.waterloo.edu> gjditchfield@violet.waterloo.edu (Glen Ditchfield) writes:
>
>I use a 2 meg Mac with an external 800k disk and no hard disk.  Could I
>make full use of FullWrite with such a system if I used a ram disk to hold
>some of the extras dohickeys?
>
>(I think IBM sells machines with 1.44 megabyte 3.5" drives.  Will such
>higher-density drives be available for Macs?  "Newer ROM upgrades", anyone?)
>

I seem to recall hearing, way back in March of 1987 when the SE's were
first available, that there would be 1.6M 3.5" floppies available "soon"
for the Mac (or at least for the SE's). Since then, I haven't heard a word
about this.  Does anyone know anything about this?  

>Glen Ditchfield                              watmath!violet!gjditchfield
>Dept of Computer Science, U of Waterloo         (519) 885-1211 x6658
>Waterloo, Ontario, Canada			   Office: MC 2006
>If you grab the bull by the horns, you at least confuse him -- R.A.Heinlein


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