Re: Apple IIgs

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Dave Althoff (dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us) wrote:

: The copies of GS/OS on the ftp.apple.com and ftptoo.apple.com sites are
: DiskCopy images of 800k ProDOS disks.  While you can download those images
: with anything, the only way you can turn them into useful ProDOS disks is
: to run them through DiskCopy on a Macintosh.

: Yes, there are Shrinkit archives out there...ummm...somewhere.  But the
: official copies on the Apple FTP site are images that you're going to need
: a Macintosh to decode.  Besides, you can't write to ProDOS 800k disks with
: a Wintel machine anyway...

If you point your web browser to til.info.apple.com and follow the system
updates link to the 6.0.1 section, you'll find the disks in both shrunk
disk and Disk Copy formats. The TIL (tech info library) is a pretty handy
site since you can search it for support info. As of last November, Apple
axed all free live tech support and tells people to use the TIL instead. 
For a while, they offered free support for old proucts and a limited period
of free support for new stuff. Now you get 90 days with new stuff and have
to use the TIL or buy a service agreement when that runs out. Having free
support forever was good while it lasted, but harsh economic reality kinda
put the kibosh on it.
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