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From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Minimal configuration (was Re: Computer for the rest of us?)
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Date: 23 Sep 88 17:32:20 GMT
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In article <10330042@eecs.nwu.edu> bob@eecs.nwu.edu (Bob Hablutzel) writes:
>To my mind, the minimal Macintosh is a Mac Plus with a single floppy. It
>just depends on what you want to use the Mac for. 

That's a bit bare, unless by "single floppy" you mean single EXTERNAL
floppy.  Have you ever tried to run Installer on a single-floppy
system?  Maybe you don't mind swapping disks every second for an hour,
but "the rest of us" do.  And there are many popular applications that
don't have room for the System on the application disk.

I'd say that the minimal usable system is a Mac Plus with one internal
and one external floppy.

Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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