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The first Mac to go floppyless was the iMac, Jobs baby after he returned. Floppies are no longer a frequent use item, but they can be necessary and given how dirt cheap they are there's no reason not to include. At home when I use a floppy there is no other option, for about $15 of hardware it's a nice safety net.

There was no print buffer in System 7, at least not one that would be remotely useful. I remember very well working in the library on their Macs going to print my first large document and WHAMMO a system modal dialog box pops and the computer can do NOTHING until there's less than a page and a half left to print, and given that pathetically slow Applewrite printer that was a loooooong time coming. Maybe there was some hidden option but that's just proof of poor design, Word Perfect 5.1 for DOS could be used while printing by default. Not having all printing running as a background process in a suposedly multi-tasking OS was simply stupid.

There was no print buffer in System 7, at least not one that would be remotely useful. I remember very well working in the library on their Macs going to print my first large document and WHAMMO a system modal dialog box pops and the computer can do NOTHING until there's less than a page and a half left to print, and given that pathetically slow Applewrite printer that was a loooooong time coming. Maybe there was some hidden option but that's just proof of poor design, ,p> More ignorance. in the early 19990s I was managing a network of Macintosh's running various OS from 7-7.6... all of them had print buffers that handled large files quite nicely. Several publishing houses and newspapers that were entirely Macintosh would be very surprised by your printing problem... and many print shops would as well. Just because YOU don't know about them does not mean they weren't there.

It is obvious that at home you use a PC. Why should every Macintosh user pay $15 for a floppy drive that they will NEVER NEED, because YOU think it a "nice safety net?" And at the time the Applewriter printer was being sold, ALL dot matrix printers were pretty slow. How about trying the Applelaser for speed at that time... and it was the first (and for several years) the only consumer priced laser printer.