I run 8.6 on my Mac 7300 (G3/400) 248MB RAM with a "tiny" 2GB hard drive. The OS takes up maybe up to 30MB, and I have at least 40 different applications that I use including ClarisWorks 4, Eudora 5.1, and Netscape 4.76 (I have Netscape 6.1 and Opera, but I don't use them). I don't do images very much, so a 2 GB HD is adequate for me (last I checked, I still have some 850MB storage unused).
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