Re: I have a IIgs. So now what?

[et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black)]

David Empson (dempson@actrix.gen.nz) writes:
> Tristan Mumford <xtristan.xmumford@xgmail.xcom> wrote:
> 
>> I'll have to dig the computer out of the shed one day. It's in a special
>> padded carrybag with spaces for the keyboard and mouse. I seem to recall
>> that it may also have the OS built into ROM.
> 
> That's basically true for all Mac models prior to the iMac.
> 
But the Classic had the whole shebang in ROM.  So if you pressed
the right keys while starting up, you didn't need the OS on floppy or
the hard drive.  The only Mac that did that, and I suspect they realized
the flaw.  No easy way to upgrade it, which is likely why they didn't
use that method before, or after.

If you didn't press the right key combination, you needed the floppy or
hard drive to get the rest of the operating system.

  Michael