On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 03:58 PM, dan_A wrote: > Hi Pastor Glenn- > > I bought a similar cd on ebay a few month ago for $5.00. It contains > Apple service manuals, in PDF format, on one partition and a System > software library on the other partition. The manuals are from the > earliest machines, 128k to the Quadra 950 plus all Apples > peripherals. The system software consists of disks images from sys > 0.5 to sys 6.05 including print tools and utilities. If you have any > old machines this stuff is great. The manuals are the ones the techs > have that were not available to the public. I don't know if what you > saw is the same disk but I'm very happy with what I got. > > There is the ethical issue that the Apple Service manuals are copyright, and most CDs on eBay are CD-Rs burned by people who've either downloaded individual files or else copied genuine Apple Manual CDs.
AFAIK, all manuals and s/w d/ls are available FOC on the www anyway. Some CDs contain parts data bases that I've not seen on the WWW. Stuart -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
