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H A R E W A R E The Macintosh Plus The Macintosh Plus is, I think the best Mac of all the classic compact Macs. I own two Mac Pluses, both with 2.5MB of RAM. One of them has a 40MB Apple external SCSI hard drive, and the other one has a DataSpace DS800 external 800K floppy drive. The one with the hard drive I've connected an EMAC MD2400 modem and an ImageWriter II dot matrix printer to it also. This makes it a compete, fully working system with which I can send and receive e-mail (although a little slow), word-process, keep a database, run a spreadsheet, create graphics, layout pages and write hypercard stacks. I use System 6.0.8. The programs I have for the Plus include: The original MacWrite (I'm using it right now), MacPaint, MacDraw, Claris MacPaint 2.0, ClarisWorks 2.0, Claris MacWrite Pro, Claris MacDraw II, Letraset Ready, Set, Go! 4.0, Aldus PageMaker 3.02, Aldus Freehand 3.1, Eudora Lite 1.5.1 (for e-mail) and MacWWW (web browser). For system INITs I run ATM for using with Postscript fonts, Super Clock which gives me a clock on my menu bar, Moire, a screensaver, MacTCP and Config PPP for internet. I bought both Mac Pluses at a local computer consignment store. The first Plus I bought did not come with a hard drive. I paid CAN$50 for this Plus which I thought was a great bargain, as it came with the original box and manuals and system disks, and it was also in perfect condition (it was like brand new). I did not know a great deal about old Macs then, I only bought it because the design was really nice. I started to play with this Plus, but I couldn't do much with it since it does not have a hard drive. All I could run was Teach Text! I could run MacWrite on a separate floppy, but it just takes to long to keep swapping floppies to load up the program. I then came across this Mac Plus with the Apple Hard Drive. It was an Apple external hard drive, which is very rare, and it's 40MB too! Most other hard drives I've seen were third party ones and only 20MB. I only wanted the hard drive,m but I had to buy the computer as well if I want the drive. Therefore, I bought the whole system, for CAN$112, which , I though was very reasonable.