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Apple Adds to Vintage Software Collection With eBay Purchase

System 7... brings back memories. My first Mac shipped with System 6 point something. System 7 was considered a huge upgrade and it cost me $129 which was a lot of money back then ($233.01 in today's dollars according to Siri). It came with a thick manual and on a bunch of floppies. Talk about environmentally unfriendly lol.

Tech has come a LONG way since then but I do miss the tinkering and the novelty of everything... even simple things like screen savers... Who can forget those flying toasters haha.
 
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MacRumors said:
Upon asking the buyer about the purchase, he was told that Apple maintains a lab at its headquarters containing archived materials. "We were missing some of the disks that you placed on eBay," wrote the buyer.
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Am I understanding this wrong?
Did Apple mean that they have lost the the archived materials and they ended up at the seller's hands?
Or did Apple mean that they are trying to complete their archive and the seller happen to have some of those that Apple does not have??
 
Mr. Dee said:
I was gonna mention this myself. Steve never cared much for keeping anything like this when he returned to Apple. Personally, I think it was bias, since he still brought up the original Macintosh or the Apple I in previous presentations. I honestly don't know why Apple would want to do this now considering its co-founder wasn't too fond of it.

Then again, it is part of Apple history and you want to maintain some link to your past by understanding where you are coming from. The Ebay seller is right about the Microsoft Archives; I have been there and without going into much detail, it is indeed robust. I'm talking like Assembly Code in binders going back to the 70's.
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I'm not sure, he said 'Apple invented the modern notebook computer' (the PowerBook from 1991) in the iPad unveiling. It's only looking back you realise 'Steve didn't invent that, Apple did.'
 
thekeyring said:
I'm not sure, he said 'Apple invented the modern notebook computer' (the PowerBook from 1991) in the iPad unveiling. It's only looking back you realise 'Steve didn't invent that, Apple did.'
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Actually he kinda did. After the Macintosh was released he tried to move to UNIX, and get Apple to bankroll the "DynaBook" project which was an LCD touch screen battery powered mac, the size of a notebook. The PowerBook came out of that after Gassees dreadful attempt at the all-inclusive Mac suitcase Portable which led to his leaving the company.
 
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I have to admit that System 7 is my favorite classic Mac OS. I still have a Mac Classic that works just fine and is running 7.1.2 I believe, which was the most stable of the System 7 line-up. However, System 7.5 was when the decline began. I was working at Apple at this point and although it was the early days of the internet, the TCP/IP stack and Control Panel were basically broke and it took Apple engineers WAY too long to fix it. Must have been the same two coders left who worked on the original Copland (what a piece of CRAP that was. I saw it try to run a couple of times, but it would crash, crash and crash again.). But System 7 = beautiful.
 
Does not surprise me at all. When Steve Jobs came back to Apple, a lot of archives were purged as a spiteful move after dismissed from Steve. When the NeXT OS became OS X, anything OS 9 or less became persons non grata and a redhead step-child.
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galrito said:
Better to dig him up before he lacks oxygen.
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Steve's body was cremated and the urn is in the possession of his family.
 
I remember the 'good old days', and my IIcx. I really loved that computer. I mean, in hind sight. I was so pissed at the 'dirty ROM' problem, I sold it to a friend of a friend, and lost track of it. I've tried to find one on eBay, or a IIci, but there aren't many/any to be had.

Well, and part of the draw I guess is that I was a lot younger back then too. Life does seem simpler, until I think about the stress of school, dating, work... I'm good... Still, a clean working IIci would be neat. And that Trinitron color monitor. Awesome!
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macs4nw said:
How much time do you have? :D

Seriously, all things considered, it's not too bad. I think the poster meant he misses the days when OSs were simple and straightforward, and worked as expected with few glitches or conflicts, which is not always the case with today's (much more complicated) software.

I attribute a lot, if not most of the problems on semi-convergence with iOS and Cloud features.
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But I remember the (and I might have the name wrong) 'system enablers', or 'system extensions'. Little nuggets that you tucked in the System Folder to make the OS work on your particular model. I remember having issues with one of those. They system kept crashing and hanging.There were a lot of band-aid 'fixes' offered at that time. And every new box seemed to have its own 'extension'.

I do remember getting hit with the 'Scores' virus. Freaked out, but it was nothing. Nothing like PC viruses...

iCloud is still 'not ready for prime time', IMO. Too many outages in its history for me to trust it, but Apple is definitely doing a good job of ramming it down our throats.
 
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Cineplex said:
It has gotten clunky and unstable. It also has way too many notifications that you can't disable. It also forces you to update things like flash. I am all for security...but I don't need to be forced to update.
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Pretty damn stable to me. Notifications can be disabled. Flash has nothing to do with Apple, blame Adobe if you want to not be forced to update Flash. Not sure how that's Apple's problem.
 
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WarHeadz said:
Pretty damn stable to me. Notifications can be disabled. Flash has nothing to do with Apple, blame Adobe if you want to not be forced to update Flash. Not sure how that's Apple's problem.
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Apple is the one forcing you to update flash by not allowing it to run on OS X. Adobe doesn't care. Way too big brother for my taste. Apple should not be allowed to control what software I run on my Mac. Period.

Software update notifications can not be disabled. Just stalled. I got sick of being asked every time I logged in.
 
Cineplex said:
Apple is the one forcing you to update flash by not allowing it to run on OS X. Adobe doesn't care. Way too big brother for my taste. Apple should not be allowed to control what software I run on my Mac. Period.
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You honestly have no clue what you're talking about. Flash updates have nothing to do with Apple, you can run whatever you want on your Mac. I think your problem is you.
 
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I like this story. Finally a good news article few people can complain about surely?

Now on to the other threads! :p
 
That's pretty cool that they did that. It shows that Apple does scour the Internet for things related to the company and I wouldn't be surprised if they read our forums as well from time to time.
 
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Wow what a cool story! Might be time to dig out the ol' crate of unusable CD's and software disks in the basement and see if there's anything worthwhile!
 
MacRumors said:



An Apple collector who was selling his vintage Apple software collection on eBay received a surprise earlier this month when Apple itself bought out much of his software inventory for its software archives (via MacGeneration).

According to seller "Marcoguy," he made several listings of various Apple CDs and received a message from someone asking to buy a dozen discs. When he went to ship the package, he noticed it was going to 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino, California, Apple's corporate address. Upon asking the buyer about the purchase, he was told that Apple maintains a lab at its headquarters containing archived materials. "We were missing some of the disks that you placed on eBay," wrote the buyer.

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It's not clear how much Apple paid to fill out its archives, but the seller lists his software at prices ranging from $9.95 to $19.95. It's also not known exactly what Apple purchased, but the seller is offering many rare CDs from the early 90s, including a beta version of Apple's System 7 operating system and a disc from WWDC in 1994.

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WarHeadz said:
Pretty damn stable to me. Notifications can be disabled. Flash has nothing to do with Apple, blame Adobe if you want to not be forced to update Flash. Not sure how that's Apple's problem.
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Most of the updates to Flash have been from really stupid things. 'Buffer overflows'? 'Memory leaks'? Like do they even have ANYONE checking the code for ANYTHING? Sloppy programming. Sloppy...
 
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