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Post #10 by porter
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryPeripherals
Post DateThu, 25 Jun 2009 - 22:05
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/that-was-the-way-things-were.17759/
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So did that second disk that he saved the file on have a system too, or can it just be blank?
Formatted empty disk.

When using my first Mac I only had the internal floppy, but did have 4Mb of memory and System 6. So a RAM disk was a sensible way of doing things, I kept my project on the system disk, but after I booted up I copied the applications I was going to use into the ramdisk. Lots of system resources get loaded on demand, including needing a swap in of the system disk, ironically, just to read the hour-glass cursor.

A major advance of the Mac over CPM/DOS/Windows is that removeable media are referred to by the media itself, not the drive they happen to be in. Consider using A: or B: on DOS to get at different floppies, on the mac you can have more floppies available than physical drives, if you eject a floppy and put it back in a different drive the system doesn't care.

Presumably most people will say "What's 'B:' ?" ::)

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