Re: Make bootable IIgs disks on a Mac?

[TheFlash@fast.net (Barry Allen)]

In article <Hg0g7.45087$K6.17660435@news2>, "william strutts"
<wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com> wrote:


> Actually, the HD died an hour after I bought it so I had to
> download the disk from Apple's web site. It did have System
> 7.0.1 on it when I got it.  7.0.1 only had Apple File Exchange.
> I loaded up 7.1 on it but it didn't have a good way to read
> DOS or ProDOS disk so I upgraded it to System 7.5.3
> and later to 7.5.5.
> 


My distribution disks do have PC Exchange and ProDOS File System on the
Master disks. It also has Foreign File Access, High Sierra, Apple Photo
Access (Kodak Photo CD) and ISO 9660 Extensions.

My release is 7.1.2 (1992). Maybe that's the difference.

I remember PC Exchange being a stand alone product too, so somewhere along
the line Apple must have decided to include it with the release.

Maybe when the Performa line was introduced? When the first Performas came
out they came bundled with all kinds of software and CDs etc. Maybe this
was another bundled goodie and they decided it made sense to make it
available across the distribution line.

The Classic II brochure just says System 7, no further clarification.

My experience with 7.5.3--7.5.5 and 7.6.1 is that they always worked just
like my 7.1, so I never gave it another thought.

I can honestly say I've never used a Macintosh with System 7 and above
(worked with hundreds) that did not do ProDOS and MSDOS disks. I was just
playing around with Apple File Exchange and then deleted it from a floppy I
had.

Barry Allen