[WinMac] Re: Floppyless iMac (WinMac Digest #219 - 02/06/99)

Romeyn Prescott(prescor[at]potsdam.edu)
Thu, 18 Mar 1999 22:29:16 -0500

>
> Rather than just complain, here is my solution:
>
> Let's roll back the clock to about 1985 or so... Remember the Tandy x86
> machines that had DOS 3.2 (or so) in ROM? The selling feature was that
> instead of booting from the floppy slowly, the machine would boot very
> quickly from the copy of DOS in ROM.
>

You don't have to go back THAT far. The Mac Classic had System
6.0.5 (or was it 6.0.3?) in ROM. You could boot the thing sans
floppy AND Hard Drive by holding down CMD-OPT-X-O at startup. I
don't know why Apple ever stopped doing this. Then again, I wonder
the same thing about lots of things Apple did (Likewise, TechStep,
the PowerBook 540...)

...ROMeyn

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