[WinMac] Re: Floppyless iMac
Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Fri, 05 Feb 1999 20:27:00 -0500
Michael:
That's the problem: Any software house that wants to publish a disk
repair, disk defragmenter, or disk editor utility for the MacOS needs to
now license the MacOS from Apple... And that drives up the cost.
Stop and think about this for a moment: You buy a Mac, and it includes a
one machine license for the MacOS. But to repair the disk drive, you need
to buy a second copy of the MacOS from Apple (via Symantec, Alsoft, etc...)
for this single machine.
And that is a ripoff.
At 06:49 PM 2/5/99 -0600, Michael Bartosh wrote:
>> Dear David,
>>
>> What the iMac lacks is a way to boot the machine and run disk
>> repair/recovery utilities *easily*... And I underscore the word EASILY.
>> Yes, you can boot from a CD, but then what happens when you can't run a
>> repair program because there is no second drive... Even a lowly floppy
>> drive? Remember, the iMac also lacks a SCSI port so you can't boot from an
>> external disk, either.
>
>Disk first aid is very nice now- and any disk repair program comes
>with a startup CD.
>
>-mab
>
>>From the iMac of...
>
>*******
>Michael Bartosh
>bartosh@tamu.edu
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