From: Eric Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 10:07:23 -0400
On May 6, 2004, at 7:52 AM, Darren wrote:External floppy, priceless. :)
Yes, absolutely.
Speaking of external floppy drives, does anyone know if M0131 drives came in platinum, and if so, is there any way to differentiate them from beige ones?
Fujitsu (might have been Fuji, but pretty sure it was Fujitsu) made a nice external 800K floppy drive for Macs which, as far as I know, only came in platinum. You might keep an eye out for one of those. I have one (in the back of the closet somewhere) because it was $80 back when the Apple drives were closer to $200.
For the original poster, you might consider using RAM Disk+. I used to have it set up to create a 1.5 MB RAM Disk and load the OS onto it. Then I would copy the Word 5.1 app (just the app) to it. That left me with 1 MB of RAM (2.5 MB Plus) for the OS and Word. And I could save all my documents to a floppy which was just for documents. No floppy swapping (unless I wanted to switch to a different application) and it was very fast because having your OS and app on a RAM disk really speeds processing.
With 4 MB you have much more wiggle room. And if you get a second floppy drive, woo hoo!
Jeff Walther
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