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Considering that all Mac's made after January 1989 came with a 1.4meg floppy vice the original 400k/800k drive, I'd say that Apple saw it's error with the original drives and corrected it. Everything starting with the SE/30 and IIx has the 1.4meg and in fact Apple dropped support in the OS for dealing with the earlier format in System 8.X. That's one reason I keep my PM 6100 around running System 7.5.5, so that I can still create the images and disks of those. They were trying for a completely different market with the compact Mac's. Their size was meant to make them less formidable to the new computer user. Even my wife, who hasn't touched a computer in a number of years, and who then only used a pre-made boot disk to go directly into a terminal program, saw my Color Classic and stopped to look at it and and called it 'cute'. I like larger cases with expandability myself, but the overall design of the compact Mac's has to be given credit for being the solid design that it is. My take on that would be that a CP/M machine, at the same period in time, with a SASI or SCSI interface would've been bought for business use though. Other than someone heavy into tinkering with the hardware, not many people would've spent the money for one for home use. As it is, enough other manufacturers used the same DB25 connector on that era's SCSI inplementations. My point in all this is that yes, Apple has done some strange things over the years, some of which have been pet peeves of mine since before I started using Mac's (inability to format non-Apple SCSI hard disks!), and they've produced a few lemons (52-5300 and 62-6300 series PowerMacs) but overall they are very solid machines. For instance, the cases on the Blue/white G3 and G4 towers are almost works of art. HP, Compaq, Tandy, IBM and nearly all of your major PC vendors have themselves done things inconsistent or incompatible with the rest of the industry as well at varios times, so it's not just Apple that tries to pull one over on the user on occasion. I found it hillarious when Tandy introduced IDE in the 1000-series but made it 8bit vice the normal 16bit, which in turn meant that it was compatible with all of four hard disks at the time (2 from Seagate, 2 though taken as a whole accomplished what it was meant to do and was quite successful. It had excellent name recognition into the early 90's. Jeff -- Collector of Classic Microcomputers and Video Game Systems: Home of the TRS-80 Model 2000 FAQ File http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lakes/6757