In 1984 Apple Computer unveiled their Macintosh. It included a new user interface that revolutionized the way people though about computer interaction. Originally referred to as simply 'Macintosh System', the underlying OS was a single-tasking disk system for the Motorola 68K CPU. Significant changes were made in MacOS 7.x.
Emulation note: For MacOS 0.x-6.x we recommend the vMac Mini emulator.
Although there are plenty of great apps already built into OS X, I use a lot of third-party apps on my Mac to give it more functionality tailored to my needs, as I’m sure many other Mac users do too. In this piece, I’ll be sharing what my five favorite third-party apps to use on my Mac on a daily basis are, and I’ll also share why I love. This Internet Archive emulated item contains a 25MB Macintosh formatted disk image with an install of Mac System 7.5.3. From Wikipedia: 'System 7.5.3, a major bug-fix update that also included Open Transport for other PowerPC-based machines as well as some 68k-based machines.
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It is possible to write Macintosh 400k/800k images to a real disk using a Kryoflux.
Note: Wikipedia's/Apple's Developer CD Classic Mac OS 'System Software' numbering scheme is GARBAGE and should NOT be used.
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System 3.0, Finder 5.1 was introduced with the Mac Plus. Officially added HFS, added 800K startup drives, support for SCSI, and AppleShare. This system disk was also used with the Mac 512Ke. System 3.x was packaged as the 'System Tools' and 'Utility' v1.0 and v1.1 disks for each Mac model.
System 3.1, Finder 5.2 was only released on a Printer Installation disk. Apple intended to package System 3.1 Finder 5.2 with the first Macintosh 512Ke machines, but due to a bug they used the original Macintosh Plus System Tools disk instead. System 3.1 Finder 5.2 was never released as a system disk.
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Mac System 3.2, Finder 5.3 included mostly minor changes. Apple release separate System Tool bundles for the Mac 128/512 with 400k drive, the 512Ke, the Plus, and HD 20. This is the last version to support the Macintosh 128k.
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Mac System 3.3, Finder 5.4 only released with AppleShare Workstation 1.0 disks. Adds AppleShare networking. Mac System 3.3, Finder 5.5 only released with AppleShare Workstation 1.1 disks.Mac System 3.4, Finder 6.1 only released with AppleShare Workstation 2.0 disks, and specific to the Macintosh 512Ke.