On 2004/01/29, at 22:34, Space Case wrote:

> On Jan 29,  8:12pm, Joel Rees wrote:
>> I never shoot from the hip. Do you shoot from the hip?
>
> Nope.  Just relating my experience from back in the day.

Heh.

I lied, of course. I often shoot from the hip. Shoot myself in the 
foot, two. Who has the time to look up everything? I just happened to 
have been into that page recently looking for a system enabler or 
something.

>>     http://www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelist.html#system
>
> Yeah, a download site for updates and utilities.  I've been there in
> the past...
>
>>     http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=26275
>
> And a non-specific license agreement.  So?
>
> I did a search, and looked at several hundred sites before writing
> this reply.  I saw several mentioning that Apple released 7.5.3
> for free in Feb. of 1999.  A bunch talk about booting a 7.5 floppy,
> then doing a 7.5.3 install.  Note that the 19 floppies are a .smi,
> which in itself is not bootable.  A lot of sites talk about doing
> a 7.5.3 update from 7.5, 7.5.1 or 7.5.2.  Sites talk about _making_
> a bootable 7.5.3 or 7.5.5 CD.  I saw one that had a (out of stock)
> Power Computing 7.5.3 CD.  But I didn't see any talking about
> booting any 7.5.3 media from Apple.
>
> To be fair, the sites that mention the Apple release of 7.5.3 imply
> that it can be installed directly, not just as an upgrade to 7.5.
> And the text note accompanying those 19 floppies talks about booting
> a 7.5 Network Access floppy in order to accomplish the install.  In
> my defense, I will note that this 7.5.3 "full install" came out long
> after I had moved on to System 8, and I was not aware that it could
> be used so...  So I concede that there indeed is a 7.5.3 that now can
> be used to install from scratch.  So far as I can see, however, my
> previous statements still stand in regard to the rest of the "update"
> versions, and to 7.5.3 at the time of its original release.
>
> ~Steve
>
>
> -- 
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>
> Faith is the quality that enables you to eat blackberry jam on a picnic
> without looking to see whether the seeds move.
>
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> It just happens to be selective about who it makes friends with.
> 	-Kyle Hearn  <kyle@intex.net>
>
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>