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From: Charles.E.Dubuque@dartmouth.edu (Charles E. Dubuque)
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Subject: Re: Price for System 7.0?
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Date: 5 Apr 91 02:46:43 GMT
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Your saleslady is wrong. Apple has always and will continue to
distribute System software through various free outlets. Any authorized
Apple Dealer will be required (though grudgingly) to give it to you;
you must provide the disks, which in the case of System 7.0 will
probably be seven or eight 800K disks as opposed to four or five in
previous releases. You can also get it from Apple.apple.com archives,
although I doubt Apple will do this immediately considering the heavy
volume such a release would illicit.

You could also make copies of other people's system 7.0 disks. However,
simply clicking and dragging will probably not be an option since
installing System 7.0 will be extremely Installer intensive. That means
it will use the Installer program, and you will be strongly advised to
use the Installer program. Funny thing about the Installer program is
that it doesn't usually recognize click-and-drag copied disks.

There is a program called DiskCopy available from apple.apple.com and
from most dealers. In apple.apple.com it is under /pub/dts/sw-license.
You will need it if you get system 7.0 from apple.apple.com anyway.
Whether you actually get your copy off apple archives or not is
irrelevant, if you "do it yourself", you'll need this program, and it
is the program your dealer will be using to make your copies of the
system 7.0 disks.

What you salesperson was probably referring to was the "bundled set" of
System software and THE MANUALS. Most Mac users don't ever touch their
system manuals, so you probably don't need them, and on your student
budget, probably can't afford them. With the volume of changes in
System 7.0, I could see the manuals going for $120, but in the past
they have been available for $49, like the recent HyperCard update,
including the software.

Hope this helps,
Chuck
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