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In spite of the general trend by AMUG members toward newer and faster hardware, I suspect that there are a lot of members who have older Macs in their original form.  When AMUG was founded in 1984, all Macs had single-sided floppy drives, 64K ROMs, and a scant 128 KBytes of memory.  Although these Macs were not very powerful by today's standards, there was one advantage- everybody had the same hardware.  This meant that what would run on one machine would run on everyone's machine.  Today, this is not the case.  A great deal of the commercial and non-commercial software available today will not run on the original Mac, for one or more of the following reasons:  1)  The 128K of available memory is not sufficient;  2) the program requires a newer version of the System software than will run with

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the "old" 64K ROMs;  and 3)  the program is too large to fit on a single-sided floppy.  Apple quickly came out with a procession of new models, each of which addressed these limitations.  Here is a chart that summarizes the features of the earlier models:

Macintosh  128K     64K  Single-Side    no
Mac 512K    512K     64K  Single-Side    no
(Fat Mac)
Mac 512KE  512K    128K Double-Side   no
Mac Plus    1 Meg   128K Double-Side   yes
    If you have an older Mac, you have no doubt noticed that a lot of the software AMUG gives out won't run properly on your machine.  
Many club 
members have 
opted to buy newer 

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Model     Memory    ROM   Floppy   SCSI Port