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532: The Meat Part of Multitasking

Accidental Tech Podcast

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The Mac's Floppy Disk Drive

On the original Mac, there was nowhere to put your stuff except the floppy disk drive. If you're less than a million years old, like we are, this is probably not really making any sense. You could boot from the operating system on the floppy drive and then you'd see the operating system and you'd see Mac paint. And when you double click Mac paint, everything goes away and just Mac paint is running.

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