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From: ngg@bridge2.3Com.Com (Norman Goodger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacSE/30 Questions
Message-ID: <316@bridge2.3Com.Com>
Date: 8 Feb 89 23:55:30 GMT
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Article<1690@tank.uchicago.edu>c3ar@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Walter C3arlip) writes:
>Two questions for those of you who know about (or have
>actually *seen*) the new SE/30:
>(1) Is it true that the version without hard drive comes
>    with only *one* FDHD Superdrive?  The pictures I've seen
>    seem to have a slot for only one internal floppy drive.
>    What good is a floppy based system with only one drive?

There is still a port for an external floppy drive, though I think that
all configurations include a HD..

>(2) Will the SE/30 run all existing software that runs on,
>    say, a MacPlus or a plain SE?
>
Anything that runs on a Mac II and up will run on the SE30, as there is still
some software that is to hardware specfic floating around that willl of course
not work....


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