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| System 7 Disks and System 7.6 sealed box | |
| Posted by: jsarchibald on 2010-11-23 21:12:56 Fine, snub my plain and boring box art! 😉 | |
Posted by: Concorde1993 on 2010-11-23 21:47:27Fine, snub my plain and boring box art!JS, why don't you post some pics of your Apple disks when they arrive? It's your thread after all (btw, I was not expecting my System 7 box to gain the attention it did). | |
| Posted by: jsarchibald on 2010-11-23 21:55:33 Yeah, I suppose I should. The pictures were fairly average, so I'll take some better ones to put up. After all, what is a conquest without photos? A nonquest. | |
| Posted by: jsarchibald on 2010-11-25 03:56:53 The disks arrived today, and I'm pretty pleased. The 12 800k floppies all work, and I took Disk Images of them so I can store them securely. It is System 7.0, and it all works perfectly! The System 7.6 box was damaged, so I took off the shrink wrap, but everything inside is in as new condition. All the manuals, CDs, floppies, warranty cards, even a small brochure for the 'new'G3 iMac. | |
| Posted by: LCGuy on 2010-11-25 04:01:08 Very nice. I'm curious though - how did an iMac brochure get into a sealed System 7.6 box? Mac OS 8 was released around July 1997, and the iMac didn't become public knowledge until April 1998. I can't imagine they would have still been making new copies of System 7.6 by then... | |
| Posted by: jsarchibald on 2010-11-25 04:13:48 I know, it's a bit weird. Everything in the box has a copyright date of 1997 (except the iMac 'Think Different' brochure), so maybe they did continue to sell for a little while afterwards? It is Australian stock too. Also, there is a disc inside for 7.6, and one for 7.6.1. | |
| Posted by: Scott Baret on 2010-11-25 07:08:20 If I remember, Apple still sold certain versions of the system for some time after they had formally been discontinued. I seem to recall Apple still selling 7.1 about ten years ago. | |
| Posted by: ~Coxy on 2011-04-14 20:14:57 Bump from the future - I have finally taken Concorde1993's high res scan, floated out the text and other elements, and cleaned the cropping and scratches. If anyone would like a copy please let me know, but it's a 6MB .xcf (The Gimp file format) with all the layers preserved. Low res preview:  | |
| Posted by: Concorde1993 on 2011-04-14 20:16:59 Glad I was of some assistance, Coxy. | |
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