On Mar 23, 2004, at 4:22 PM, Byron Q. Desnoyers Winmill wrote:
On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 02:19:33PM -0500, Eric Rasmussen wrote:This is true. The availability of System 6 in multiple manifestations means that Apple can say that they support (in the sense that they still provide system software) Macintosh hardware back to 1986.
There is another thing which I was thinking: Apple may not have the old system software any more. Media decays or archives may be purged for newer stuff.
Byron.
Still....if some of us have DOS 3.3 lying around perfectly fine on 5 1/4s....im sure Apple has those things. I'm sure after all their hard work back then they would have had them backed up on tape, or even possible stored on CDs of the time for archiving. Considering the fact that they have (for sure) examples of every machine they have made there, as well as all the ROM code ever written....they probably do. What they probably are doing is a value assessment thing. If 20 people want system 3 or 5 or whatever it may be, is it worth their time and space for the 20 people?
John
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