Mac Classic prob (was Macintoshes...) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

25 Jun 1998

On 25 Jun 98 at 23:22, Zane H. Healy wrote:

...
  Wow, it has the complete OS in ROM?  I didn't know
any of the Mac's did
 that.  Are there any others or was this a one shot experiment that failed?
 The OS in ROM is the main thing I like about the Atari ST's. 
ISTR that Apple were looking at a diskless Mac project -- the sort
of thing that would interest education. The Classic was available as
a hard diskless model according to the manual but I've never seen
one. Of course the diskless idea would never have worked very well
as there was nowhere to install extensions/INITs and the diskless
Classic was stuck on System 6.0.x and there was no ethernet
capability.

(An aside: Sonic Systems later developed The Diskless Mac (TDM) which 
used a boot PROM on an ethernet card to attach to an AppleShare 
server where a System image was stored. This worked with System 7 but 
the hardware range was limited.)

Phil
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