Re: Re: Thin Client Pc To Run
By: Denn to Nightfox on Sun Jan 18 2026 17:11:06

I had an Iomege zip drive that could handle 250 mb disk's...
I think they had 100MB, 250MB, and 750MD disks.

So you /think/ there was a 250mb drive, even though you actually /had/ one? Uh-huh.

Anyway, yeah, there were 100mb as well; I had one of those, still got a few disks. There was also the Jaz which came in one and two gig versions. They had a few other storage devices over the years, but these were the most popular.

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Re: Zip it. Zip it Good!
By: Mortar to Denn on Tue Jan 20 2026 11:51 am

I had an Iomege zip drive that could handle 250 mb disk's...
I think they had 100MB, 250MB, and 750MD disks.

So you /think/ there was a 250mb drive, even though you actually /had/ one? Uh-huh.

Yep I had mostly 100MB disk's but I did have a couple of 250mb disks as well. Iomega had a manufacturing facility a few miles north of where I live.

Denn

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Mortar wrote to Denn <=-

Anyway, yeah, there were 100mb as well; I had one of those, still got a few disks. There was also the Jaz which came in one and two gig
versions. They had a few other storage devices over the years, but
these were the most popular.

Back in the 68K Macintosh days, you'd have geek cred based on how tall
your external SCSI tower was - you had to have a ZIP drive, maybe a Jaz
drive, the Apple CD ROM, maybe an external HD... I hated SCSI conflicts
- having to swap the order of drives to see if one of them decided to
terminate the chain...

I had a IIci, external 2GB drive and a DDS tape drive. I wasn't one of
the cool kids.



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Re: Re: Zip it. Zip it Good!
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mortar on Thu Jan 22 2026 11:30 am

but these were the most popular.

Back in the 68K Macintosh days, you'd have geek cred based on how
tall your external SCSI tower was - you had to have a ZIP drive,
maybe a Jaz drive, the Apple CD ROM, maybe an external HD... I hated
SCSI conflicts - having to swap the order of drives to see if one of
them decided to terminate the chain...

you set them correctly and you wont have that problem.

i had a ton of scsi drives around 97+
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Re: Re: Zip it. Zip it Good!
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mortar on Thu Jan 22 2026 11:30:29

Back in the 68K Macintosh days...

Macs didn't come in 68K. The first Mac came with 128K.

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Re: Re: Zip it. Zip it Good!
By: Mortar to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Jan 24 2026 07:54 pm

Back in the 68K Macintosh days...

Macs didn't come in 68K. The first Mac came with 128K.

Denn

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Re: Re: Zip it. Zip it Good!
By: Mortar to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Jan 24 2026 07:54 pm

Re: Re: Zip it. Zip it Good!
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Mortar on Thu Jan 22 2026 11:30:29

Back in the 68K Macintosh days...

Macs didn't come in 68K. The first Mac came with 128K.

poindexter tells a lot of long tales. dont know why, but he does.


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Re: Re: Zip it. Zip it Good!
By: Mortar to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Jan 24 2026 07:54 pm

Macs didn't come in 68K. The first Mac came with 128K.

Is that a yoke? :)

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Mortar wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

Back in the 68K Macintosh days...

Macs didn't come in 68K. The first Mac came with 128K.

I meant Motorolz 68K CPUs - 68000/68020/68030/68040...



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Re: Re: Zip it. Zip it Good!
By: MRO to Mortar on Sun Jan 25 2026 07:06 am

Macs didn't come in 68K. The first Mac came with 128K.

Just jumping in, not addressing anyone in particular.

In my experience when people mention early macs and their 68k origins they are refering to the CPU, not the ram. They started on the 68000 series cpu's. Same brains used also by Amigas and Atari ST's. And we always just said 68k.

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Re: Re: Zip it. Zip it Good!
By: datGSguy to MRO on Sun Jan 25 2026 09:06 am

Re: Re: Zip it. Zip it Good!
By: MRO to Mortar on Sun Jan 25 2026 07:06 am

Macs didn't come in 68K. The first Mac came with 128K.

Just jumping in, not addressing anyone in particular.

In my experience when people mention early macs and their 68k origins
they are refering to the CPU, not the ram. They started on the 68000
series cpu's. Same brains used also by Amigas and Atari ST's. And
we always just said 68k.

you can always reply to 'all'
you're quoting stuff but i didnt say it and you're replying to me.


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