11
0 Macintosh
User's
Handbook
When using an application such as MacWrite which
is
de-
scribed in the following chapter, the Font menu will display
only those fonts which remain in the
System
file.
Saving Data
Even though the Mac's disks hold more than comparable
disks used with many other microcomputers, they still provide
a limitation to the file storage options available to the operator.
For this reason the operator should develop a strategy regard-
ing the organization of information on the disks.
DATA DISKS
vs
OPERATIONAL DISKS
When utilizing the Mac's applications to create and mod-
ify numerous documents
on
disk, the operator will soon find
that
one disk will not meet his
or
her needs. One solution to this
problem
is
to determine one
or
more disks
as
data
disks and
keep one
or
two disks as operations disks.
The term data disk refers to the information which
is
contained on the disk. A
data
disk contains only
data
files.
Data
files are simply applications documents. A data disk has
no startup capabilities.
It
does not contain the System
or
Finder icons
or
any other Mini-Mac icons which the System
file uses in its normal operation.
It
also does not contain any
of
the Mac's applications. These files can occupy the majority
of
the disk leaving little room for data files. Without the system
information, a disk may hold
25
or
more documents
of
various
types and sizes.
Operational disks contain the system startup information.
They include the
System and Finder icons along with any other
necessary Mini-Mac icons and the needed applications. Under
some data handling methods, these disks may hold a
few
documents for a short period
of
time but the main source
of
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