Re:Mac System 1.0 (1998)
by kalleboo on Sunday February 14, 2016 @01:38PM
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What I still find fascinating about the Apple machines of the OldWorld era is not how small the on-disk system was but how much they tried to stick in ROM. My Centris 660AV had QuickTime burnt into the ROM chip. Of course, before anyone used the machine there was a software update to QuickTime so there was no point.
We also had a Mac Classic that has a whole system disk in ROM that you could boot from if you held down a secret key combo.
Re:Mac System 1.0 (1998)
by yuhong on Sunday February 14, 2016 @01:46PM
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I am not sure about QuickTime being part of SuperMario ROMs, but it is funny that the Quadra 660AV/840AV and the PowerBook 190 was the only 68K Macs that used it.
We also had a Mac Classic that has a whole system disk in ROM that you could boot from if you held down a secret key combo.