on 1/21/06 3:12 PM, Eric Dunbar at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > <old man voice>"Sonny, I've been using them Macs since the beginning > of time. When I was young we had to use chisels and magnets to write > the files on those 400 K "floppy" disks which weren't floppy at all > and that was when my floppys had more memory than my rams, and, my > roms. That's a completely different story.
It certainly *is* a completely different story: your floppy disks can't have more "memory" than your "rams" (RAM). RAM is memory. floppy disks are storage; the two are different. I understand what your trying to say, it's just that the nomenclature doesn't fit. > Seriously though (and, I'm not trying to imply anything about your > loyalty to Mac or your knowledge of Mac... Same here, it's just that as a horrible, anal-retentive-type person, I simply can't let something like that go on a computer-oriented list. > I am fairly sure they were activated pretty soon after > Apple came out with the extended keyboard (was that 1986 or 1987?). Here's a resource for that: http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/keybow/ (click on the "Apple" menu at left) It looks like '87 was the release date for the Extended, with the Extended II coming out in '90. I've always wondered which of the two was higher in build quality. Any ideas? I'm guessing the earlier one, since later models of any product tend to introduce manufacturing shortcuts to help shave pennies. Best, James Fraser -- Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac Canada info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-can.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-canada%40mail.maclaunch.com/>
