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From: hunt@firqb.dec.com (Phil Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: PC Drive (What good is it???)
Message-ID: <8805182013.AA24460@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 18 May 88 20:13:37 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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Hi all...
 
 
   I just bought a 5.25" PC drive and controller for my Mac II.  Yes, I know
that $400 for a 360k drive is exhorbitant, but I needed the connectivity.  My
question is this:  Why doesn't the MacOS know about the drive.  I mean, why 
can't I use it as a Standard Mac drive.  Is it only useable with 3rd party stuff
like SoftPC??  Does any Apple stuff recognize it??  
 
For $400 I would also have expected it to be at least a 720k drive like the $75
ones you find for the PC/XT world.  Could I change the drive to a 720k one??
 
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Totally different vein......I removed my color startup screen and my system 
memory usage, which was at 313k used in a heap of 870k, went to 313k used in a
heap of 313k, so the startup problem REALLY is a major memory hog bug!!!
 
Phil Hunt