You will of course need both hardware and software to accomplish mass storage for your System 6 Mac. I am going to approach this article in the same way as I approached the work: I started with the Iomega Zip drive and then added the CD-ROM afterwards. The CD-ROM drive offers a standard media format that a great many programs are distributed on, and the Zip drive offers 100 MB of read/write storage – fundamentally a “super floppy” (this WAS part of the marketing literature for it, way back when!). Both are still readily available today (if only on eBay). However, we are going to focus on the two of these that I believe offer the most versatility: the Iomega Zip drive and the CD-ROM drive. All of these are supported by System 6 and are viable options. There are several types of mass storage you could choose to add: external hard drives, removable drives, CD-ROM drives, tape storage and so on. After all, you won’t get far with 800K floppies! In this final and long overdue post on System 6, we will look at adding external mass storage to your System 6 Mac, typically a crucial element in loading application software onto it.
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