Re: GS/OS archives missing from ftp.apple.com?

[tdixon@everest.acpl.lib.in.us (Tim Dixon)]

dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:

>In article <death-2909951314320001@kuts5p01.cc.ukans.edu>,
>Death� <death@falcon.cc.ukans.edu> wrote:
>> In article <44ffkq$gto@crcnis3.unl.edu>, gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Greg
>> Berigan) wrote:
>> 
>> >So, where has Apple relocated the contents of /dts of ftp.apple.com aka
>> >bric-a-brac.apple.com?

>I had a quick look on ftp.apple.com and ftp.support.apple.com, and
>there is no sign of them anywhere (I didn't check every directory,
>just the obvious ones).

>> No no... you should be able to find it all at ftp.support.apple.com...
>> they have been transfering files over the past year so.... 

>Not true.  They have put _some_ files on ftp.support.apple.com, namely
>System 6.0.1, HyperCard IIgs and miscellaneous support software.

>These did not come from the same source as the files on bric-a-brac,
>as evidenced by the fact that the files on support are in an unusual
>format (Apple II files with a MacBinary header or Mac compressed disk
>images) but the bric-a-brac ones were simple ShrinkIt/BinSCII files.

>In addition, bric-a-brac had a copy of System 5.0.4, the 8-bit Apple
>II System Disk (4.0.2 I think), and all of the Apple II Technical
>Notes (text versions).  These are nowhere to be found on
>ftp.support.apple.com.



>-- 
>David Empson
>dempson@actrix.gen.nz
>Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand

System 5.0.4 is there, as a stuffed DiskCopy image of an 800K disk.  I
downloaded it the other day.  Of course, I only have 5.25" disks on my
//e, but I'm getting a 3.5" drive soon.


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