[Duo2400] Re: duo nightmare

[Eric L. Strobel]

on 09/23/03 4:21 AM, Stuart Bell at stuartsmacs at dsl.pipex.com wrote:

>> Oh yeah, and I heard that some early MacOS versions are in the public
>> domain now, is there anywhere one can download them?
>> 
>> 
> 
> Not PD as such, but Apple have allowed some people in the past to put
> System 6 and earlier up for easy access and d/l.  About a year ago,
> they withdrew that permission and threatened legal action against
> anyone who has old Systems on their web sites. But ISTR that some
> System 6 stuff is on the Apple ftp site. 7.5 is available, but not 7.1
> because it contains some code that Apple licenced from others.

Everything through (I think) 6.0.8 is available from Apple's web site for
direct download.  Don't have the URL handy, but it shouldn't take but a few
minutes of digging (or googling).

- Eric.
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Eric Strobel (fyzycyst at NOSPAM^mailaps.org)

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