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Posted by: mbaran on 2014-11-12 14:41:49
Is anyone else having trouble getting to the page? I just get redirected to the generic support page.
I also found this article http://support.apple.com/kb/TA48312?viewlocale=en_US which makes it seem as they are no longer offering any of those downloads from before?
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Posted by: techknight on 2014-11-12 14:45:57
Yup. Looks like apple finally purged their system. All legacy downloads gone.
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Posted by: mbaran on 2014-11-12 14:49:06
The download links are all still good. Should I grab them all while I can and throw them into an ISO?
For example : http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/Modem/Apple_Modem_Updater.smi.bin still works.
I can run through the page and make a notepad file with every link and just run wget on all of it
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Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2014-11-12 14:52:42
Time to fire off an email to Tim Cook.
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Posted by: mbaran on 2014-11-12 15:29:59
I don't think this is against the rules, since these files were all public just a week ago, but here's a few useful things.
Pastebin of each link for each file, these are all still working. Grab them now, they could dissappear whenever. http://pastebin.com/VrBtKkG4
edit: here's a MEGA link to the entire site, I just ripped it about 15 minutes ago. All files were verified to be non zero-byte, so I think I got it all. https://mega.co.nz/#!j5dhEDYL!IjxTCwHqmgkCIN3eUJbFbIt9t52rUouDQdBZNBcC7DQ
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Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2014-11-12 15:37:25
Well, my System 7.5 disks just became a whole lot more valuable. Thankfully I still have the 7.5.3 and 7.5.5 files as well.
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Posted by: bse5150 on 2014-11-12 15:38:15
Oh my. Well, this is a troubling development. Something needs to be done about this.
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Posted by: mbaran on 2014-11-12 15:44:55
See a few posts above for an added link to all files.
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Posted by: Unknown_K on 2014-11-12 15:48:55
Nice link, snagging the file at 1.9MB/sec.
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Posted by: bse5150 on 2014-11-12 15:52:29
I'm downloading it right now. Thanks.
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Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2014-11-12 15:58:55
Getting it too. I'd actually previously considered downloading everything on that list, just in case.
At any rate, I did send an email to Tim about it. Maybe we can get it back up. They've been purging old Support articles for some time now, but I was hoping that page would be spared.
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Posted by: mbaran on 2014-11-12 16:04:47
They should just release everything before 1999. Let us have official images of System .97.
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Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2014-11-12 16:07:58
They should just release everything before 1999. Let us have official images of System .97. I've considered that, but I'm pretty sure there was a lot of licensed technology in System 7.6 and beyond that prevented them from releasing them for free.
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Posted by: techknight on 2014-11-12 17:37:07
it would be nice if Tim would release all the legacy support notes, and software as one big package to download. or maybe legacy.apple.com. But I am dreaming, i know....
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Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2014-11-12 17:41:37
I actually suggested that. If a response is coming it will probably take a little bit, as he's got to read it, forward it, then wait until he hears back.
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Posted by: SuperToaster on 2014-11-13 14:22:43
This was a big resource for us I'm sad to see it go...
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Posted by: max1zzz on 2014-11-13 15:47:16
I have a online mirror of apples old server, I downloaded it all in mid 2013 when it was already getting flakey
asa.max1zzz.co.uk
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Posted by: techknight on 2014-11-13 17:13:50
did anyone rip all the tech notes, and knowledge base articles for all the legacy stuff?
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Posted by: TheWhiteFalcon on 2014-11-13 17:21:00
They've been culling that stuff for years, unfortunately.
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