Re: Group purchase of Lisa, Lisa 2, Apple II, Apple III, Early Mac Software CD?

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Greg Buchner" <apple22@mn.rr.com> wrote in message
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: In article <GdOdncsWM8-2bIbfRVn-vQ@comcast.com>,
:  "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote:
:
: > Well, having no MAC OS X experience, I couldn't say if that is
: > the correct procedure, but if it is, why the hell doesn't Apple
: > ever use normal terminology. Where I come from it is normally
: > referred to as a "global image", or .GI
:
: I've never heard the term "global image" before.  A search on Google
: just brings up companies.

Try this. The first few on the list.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=global+image+cd

: Otherwise, Apple has been using the term image since before there was 1x
: CD-R's readily available for PC's (generic term) to burn with, I think.
: Mac users have long been able to make images of floppies and use them as
: a floppy and that's carried over into CDs.
:
: In fact, the program that comes with Macs for doing disk images has
: grown up from a program that just did floppies, through various system
: changes.

Ok, I concede, damn it, that Apple was freaking first.
Now let it be, will ya??? :o)

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