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[slomacuser]

well on both is SE/30 install script

 

[Scott Baret]

System 6.0.3 shipped with the SE/30 upon its release and was its original system version.

 

[Mac128]

Sigh. Yes the install script would be in the standard edition of the 1989 version of 6.0.3, and every version of the System software thereafter. What I'm trying to say, but evidently not plainly enough, is that there may have been a customized Disk Tools that shipped only with the SE/30, which would not have had any installers on it. Like my Mac Plus disks, every disk may have been custom labeled SE/30, and possibly even included only the SE/30 installer, and not the installers for every other Mac.

Or, are you saying that the SE/30 is the only install script on your 6.0.3 disks?

 

[slomacuser]

I want to say that the both 6.0.3 disks I have are identical to all other on web, but one is labeled 1988 and other 1989 ...

 

[Mac128]

Then it's what I speculated. There is either a custom SE Tools disk (if not an entire set), or somebody at Apple was smoking something when they wrote that TIL article.

 

[yuhong]

Then it's what I speculated. There is either a custom SE Tools disk (if not an entire set), or somebody at Apple was smoking something when they wrote that TIL article.

Well, you see, the SE/30 and the System 6.0.3 was released January 20, 1989, which is why one set of disks was copyrighted 1988:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac/browse_frm/thread/93d14d2a5b4a213a/a0c6dadddc09a2f2

 

[Mac128]

Well, you see, the SE/30 and the System 6.0.3 was released January 20, 1989, which is why one set of disks was copyrighted 1988:

I have no idea what point you are making. That the 1988 copyright applies to when the software was printed for the early 1989 general release? In March 1989 the IIcx was introduced, presumably requiring a new System disk set with an installer for the IIcx. There may have been other 1989 revisions as well. What does that have to do with my speculation about the custom disk set? The copyright dates neither prove nor disprove that they were unique to the SE/30 distribution, as opposed to the general release.