Re: Make bootable IIgs disks on a Mac?

[Phil Beesley <pb14@le.ac.uk>]

In article <TheFlash-ya02408000R2008010939460001@news.earthlink.net>,
Barry Allen <TheFlash@fast.net> wrote:

> 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.

7.1.2 was released with the first generation 6100/7100/8100 PowerMacs.
As you say, 7.1.2 included PC Exchange. 

System 7.5 was released three or four months after 7.1.2. It became the
default Mac system for both PowerMacs and 68K Macs; it was the first
standard release for 68K Macs that included PC Exchange. I've just
checked the dates of the ReadMe files on the two CDs for 7.1.2 and 7.5
and the year is given as 1994.

PC Exchange was previously included with the System 7.1 Pro release but
NOT the standard System 7.0 and 7.1 releases for 68K Macs. System 7.1
Pro was an add on $$ release which basically included AppleScript and
PC Exchange with the OS.

PC Exchange was an add on $$ extra for System 7 for several years prior
to 7.5. The PC Exchange control panel from System 7.5 can be installed
on System 7.0 and 7.1 (there should not be a licencing issue as System
7.5.3 is freely downloadable).

An alternative product to PC Exchange is/was Dayna Dos Mounter. I think
that this one may work with Mac System 6.

Phil

> 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