Re: bitch, bitch, bitch

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Subject: Re: bitch, bitch, bitch
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Date: Tue, 4-Sep-84 02:53:16 EDT
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From: [email protected] (Dan Winkler)
First of all, you are overpaying for disks. We get them for $3.50 each
here and even that includes a mark up over the cost to Harvard.

Second, of course you can make effective use of a second drive. If you
have two drives connected, then both MacWrite and MacPaint will give
you the option of selecting the other drive when you want to open or
save a file. This provision for a second drive is part of the standard
file package that presents the dialog box with a list of file names you
can choose, so all applications can take advantage of it. I think your
complaints can be resolved as easily as those of the person who was
upset that the screen was excessively bright until he found out there
is a brightness control.

In general, let me point out that the Mac was not designed by a team of
morons who overlooked the possibility that you might want to use the
external drive you bought or that you might want to adjust the screen
brightness.

By the way, if you only have one drive, then a good strategy is to use
separate disks for Write and Paint, one with just MacWrite and MacWrite
documents and another with just MacPaint and MacPaint documents. You
can also free up some space by using the Font Mover to do away with
some of the fonts you aren't planning to use and by using the Finder to
remove the Imagewriter driver from disks you aren't planning to print
from.