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Slightly related side-question: I also managed to obtain an original diskette labelled "System and MacWrite MacPaint" "Backup". Copyright is 1984 and the part number on the label is 690-5023-A. When booting this, finder reports version 1.1g. Font Mover and Fonts are on this diskette (which...

Thanks for this info - I had never seen it anywhere. The "A Guided Tour of the Macintosh" diskette that I have is labeled 690 5002-C. Unfortunately, this indicates that it won't have the beta version of the system that is on diskette version "A", which is what I was really looking for. When...

By the way, when I boot from the Guided Tour diskette, I bascially get into an endless loop where I have to manually eject the diskette. Booting from the Guided Tour floppy, the Tour loads automatically, but when I select some of the options, I get the "bomb" system error. No way to tell the...

Booting from a system floppy with Finder 1.1g, I dragged the Guided Tour Disk onto a blank floppy. Finder copied the diskette (warning that it would completely wipe the destination diskette - I assume this means it is doing a full copy) and files with a few swaps required. No errors occured...

I have a similar but slightly different question. I recently purchased a used Macintosh 512k (1984 model, not the 512Ke enhanced model), to allow me to live the dream that I could not when I was a kid when the original Mac was released. (I could not afford a Mac then, of course, and got an...