Re: Make bootable IIgs disks on a Mac?

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

"Barry Allen" <TheFlash@fast.net> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
Are they for the 68k processor or PowerPC processor?

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

The distribution on Apples site is stock System 7.1 and a
mention of a System 7.1 Pro which is not downloadable.

> 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.

Could be. The Classic II wasn't sold in retail stores.  The Performa
200 was the duplicate of the Classic II in the retail stores and maybe
it may have come with it.

> 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.

It is much larger and it has some added goodies.

> 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.

Hey. The first install of system 7.0 I saw was 7.0 beta.  I was given the
beta CD-ROM from a friend.  However, my first install of System 7 was
7.0.1 on a Mac Plus. It couldn't read ProDOS or MSDOS. I didn't use
anything better until I got this Classic II a couple months ago.

> Barry Allen
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