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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt
I think the first Mac my Dad bought had 64 Kb of RAM, which he later upgraded to 128. It also had one (1) floppy disk drive, period. You had the OS (the system) on one disk and your apps on other disks, and you had to switch them all the time. The Mac ejected the disk automatically and waited for you to insert the app disk, then it asked for the system disk again, and so on. Pretty soon we had an additional external disk drive, and later, a hard drive.
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Oh yeah that is right, I forgot the early ones only had one floppy drive. My first Mac was the Mac SE in 1985 while in graduate school. It had two floppy drives, just like many of the DOS PCs on the market. For the PCs, you had to have the OS on one floppy and the app plus data on the other. The PCs took forever to boot up. I cannot remember how long the Mac SE took. But as far as writing went the Mac was WYSIWYG whereas the DOS PCs had to use colors to show bold, italics, underlining, etc. So the Mac was a college student's dream computer back then. I didn't have to guess what the printed pages would look like. On the PCs though, you had to guess because they only showed 40 monospaced characters across the screen and absolutely none of the formatting except through using various colors.