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Hi all,
I just bought a Macintosh Plus from the mid 80s with an external floppy and am wondering if anybody knows the best way to use it for word processing. Do I buy a separate floppy disk with a program with Microsoft Word on it and insert it in the computer before booting up, then do I save files to the external drive? I hardly know how to use the thing; any input is much appreciated. Thank you!
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program for the early Macs.
As Bob suggested, fire it up and see what is already on there.
MacWrite, a word processor, shipped on all Macs.
If your version of the Mac_Plus has an internal hard drive, then once you have located a copy of Word, you just install it in the same way as programs are installed now.
20MB was the HD size that shipped on later models of the Plus.
P
Just last month, a document I opened was, well, how about this one?
"124 MB (130,501,632 bytes)"
My, times have changed.
Bob
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