Were the Apple IIs the only ones with no HD?

[Anonymous Freak]

Also, there has never been a single Apple computer that has a paint program in ROM.

You are likely thinking of a Macintosh with a built-in hard drive, which had the paint application on the hard drive.

Could it have been a Color Classic with an Apple CD SC underneath? The caddy-load CD-ROM drives can be confused with 5.25" floppy drives to those who are unfamiliar with the two old technologies.

 

[Jessica Lares]

No, it had the monitor separate. It wasn't a CD drive, definately not.

 

[colocolo]

Kind of late to the party, but...

What year did you use this computer? That can at least narrow it down to models existing up to that date.

Also, by any chance, by big floppy do you mean a Zip disk ?

What was the shape of the computer? Was it your typical tower, like a pizza box, or something else?

 

[Jessica Lares]

Kind of late to the party, but...

What year did you use this computer? That can at least narrow it down to models existing up to that date.

Also, by any chance, by big floppy do you mean a Zip disk ?

What was the shape of the computer? Was it your typical tower, like a pizza box, or something else?

1994/3/2, and no, wasn't the zip. I specifically remember tearing some 5.25"s apart. It wasn't a tower. Just a monitor sitting on top of a floppy drive box with the drive on the right.

It was used at a school beforehand, so I'm just wondering if that can make a difference? Like, I know that there wasn't any standard desktops that were made like that by Apple, but how easy enough was it for a third party to do it?

 

[velocityg4]

Could it have been a IIe with the Dual floppies that sit on top of it. If you were just a little kid at the time you might have thought they were a part of it.



These could run color monitors as well. Though I don't know if that capability was standard or required an upgraded video card.

 

[Jessica Lares]

It was only one standard floppy. Hmm, any other machines that came with a paint program in the rom?

 

[madmax_2069]

It was only one standard floppy. Hmm, any other machines that came with a paint program in the rom?

as far as i know i haven't seen any computers that have a paint program stored in rom (they mainly held the bootloader, and or some form of programming language), only know of computers that have the paint program stored on floppy disks or the hard disk drive. could it have had a memory saver installed in it making it seem like it was stored in rom.

have you tried posting on atariage.com in classic computing http://www.atariage.com/forums/forum/116-classic-computing/

are you 100% positive it was a Apple product, it could have been another computer (a Amiga, a Atari, Tandy,or something else)

The people on Atariage might be able to help you as well.