Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/25
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At 8:50 AM -0700 1/25/01, John Collier wrote:
>The first Apple MacIntosh had 128 K RAM with a single 400K 31/2" floppy.
>Power users added an external floppy to reduce the amount of disk swapping.
>On one 400K floppy I could fit the OS, MacWrite and a 20 page document. My
>favourite game was, and still is, Daleks. The first hard drives were
>connected to a serial port (Honey, how do you spell slow?). Now when I toss
>an icon away, it is 193K!! What is up with you programmers? 193K for an
>icon!
John, if your icon is taking up 193K of disk space it means that you
have a 12Gb hard drive or partition which is not formatted HFS+, but
the old HFS. AlsoftInc.com has a utility for converting a partition
or drive without reformatting, which would probably save a number of
Gb of disk space.
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