System 7 Group Upgrade Pack, CD with Original Box!!!

[Scott Baret]

Today someone gave me a System 7 Group Upgrade Kit with the System 7 CD-ROM!!!

It has all the manuals, HyperCard 2.1, etc. with it as well. So now I have a site license version of System 7...too bad my site isn't bigger than my trio of Classics and the IIsi! (I'm keeping the Plus on System 6 and am now thinking of upgrading all of those other ones though...)

 

[Patrickool93]

Sweet. That's really cool. Any other special software that came with it?

 

[Scott Baret]

Well, the CD includes a CD-ROM driver that works on any Plus on up, HyperCard 2.1, Network Utilities, and of course the typical System 7 utilities.

Strange to see a CD-ROM made in 1991...I hadn't even thought about CD-ROM back then, although my mom got a CD player (audio) the year before and I remember how impressed we were with it...over an hour per disc with great quality! (The first CDs we got were the Time Life Christmas Treasury and ironically those CDs are sitting about a foot in front of me as I write this, albeit with a much newer CD player now).

The box is pretty neat too...it has all the system icons on it. Some of the manuals are even shrinkwrapped. I read the "group install" manual and it talks about network installs, etc. Also had this neat little card about how to get support from Apple--looked like a typical 1990-1991 era Apple publication, which just so happens to be my favorite era for Apple stuff.

It was a random and unexpected find...I had no idea going into today that I'd get a boxed copy of System 7, let alone a site license! Now I don't feel so bad about not winning the Powerball jackpot!

 

[LCGuy]

I remember back in 1992 when we got our very first CD player, and I got my first CD (The Wiggles, if you're curious). Back then, a CD was something precious, that you treated like Gold, always handling them extremely carefully. Nowadays I use demonstration DVDs from newspapers, coastered CDs and Acer Recovery CDs as frisbees, and for ten pin bowling in university computer labs (don't ask.....)

 

[Scott Baret]

It is funny how we've come to treat our CDs differently. I know a guy who at any given time has about a dozen rather scratched CDs sitting next to his computer. I think he throws his jewel cases out or something.

Cheerios cereal once put CDs right in the box and as you mentioned, they are given out in newspapers/the mail. I once used an AOL CD as a frisbee but it broke when it hit a brick wall. Back when I still dressed up for Halloween, I was once a hardcore computer nerd and made a necklace out of CDs (and a belt out of 5.25" floppies).

However, I still get like we all did when we first discovered CDs sometimes. I bought a CD last week (Bing Crosby Christmas Collection, to be specific) and when I took it out of its jewel case for the first time, I treated it like it was 24k gold. It went ever so gently into the drive and came out in the same manner. The same thing happened the next time I listened to it. No idea how long this will last, but as of now it's one of the few CDs I have without fingerprints on it.

That System 7 one looks like it was treated like gold. Must have been the previous owner's first CD-ROM or something...the first one I used, for the record, was Grolier's Encyclopedia (which I still refer to for history sometimes even if it is a 1995).

 

[Anonymous Freak]

heh. Speaking of Gold, I just tried reading my circa-1997 CD-R discs, and they are amazing. The tint on the plastic is a deep green, and the foil on top is actual gold. (It's so thin, it is slightly see-through.) Two of the three read just fine still, but the third doesn't. No scratches or anything, but some files just refuse to read. My slightly LATER 2000 CD-Rs are almost all unreadable, though. Some refuse to even mount. So it's nice to know that the oldies apparently have longer shelf life. (I don't store anything on CD-R that I expect to need more than 2 years in the future, anyway.)

 

[bluekatt]

i tend to treat all my cd's and dvd's music or game very carefully becaus ei know what they cost me and i liked to keep them in good shape

if my cd's look damaged they were bought used

and that cd rom driver alone would be worth the price of the package

 

[II2II]

I picked up my first CD-ROM drive around 1991 or 1992. The drive itself died in the mid-1990s, but the accompanying SCSI card was in use until I dumped my PC for Macs. (Late 1990s?) Cost $800 IIRC. Almost everything is gone now, though I still have the original Time Magazine and Compact Almanac CD that shipped with it. I remember that the accompanying software bundle was a big deal because it was much harder to find CD-ROM based software back then, we wanted to buy it for educational purposes (yes, even geeky teenager II2II wanted it for the encyclopedia), and CD-ROM based software was so pricey! Man, I loved playing with that software!