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Apple Older Software Downloads

Agreed. That's the same sort of premise that's behind the Internet Archive, if my understanding is correct.

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It might just fit on a DL DVD

I could burn you one, but you might be better sourcing it from someone in the US, shipping from the UK would be expensive.

Or you can just download it, someone posted a link a few pages back, and you should just be able to wget my copy aswell

 
I must be missing stuff then, my copy comes out at 8.75GB (so no chance of getting it on a DL dvd anyway)

I'm guessing it's the os9 updates that i'm missing

 
The Internet Archive site has everything (I think) minus the files Sherry made available.   

olePigeon said:
Since this is all the free software, someone could seed a torrent file.
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Here's a Torrent to the Internet Archive site:

https://archive.org/download/download.info.apple.com.2012.11/download.info.apple.com.2012.11_archive.torrent

Once you download that, download Sherry's files for 9.x upgrades. If someone could take Sherry's files and use the same directory structure,  someone could create a zip file and seed the 9.X archive as a Torrent and overlay the 9.X files so it is complete.

I'll check my files and see if thee is any difference this weekend.  I think the Internet Archive is the same.  It's just smaller because it's a zip file.

 
One small problem, Sherry's north American files have all had the resfork stripped and are no longer mountable

Any chance you can stuff them (or binhex them) and reupload?

Seems to only be those 3 files, looks like all the other languages are binhex'd so are fine :)

 
Sherry Haibara said:
we're only allowed to redistribute up to 7.5.5 legally
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Where did you get this information? I was not aware of this. If this is true, then great! That would basically do all my systems.

Also, it has been a while and I have still not received a reply from Tim Cook. I may try going through the "conventional" Apple Support site.

Has anyone got a reply from Tim Cook about this?

 
6.0.8, 7.0.1 and 7.5.3 (+ the 7.5.5 update) are available free, but afaik only apple is allowed to distribute them. Not that they will chase anyone for distributing them.

Other OS's (older or newer) are not included int his as far as i know (but the same goes, is apple really going to chase someone distributing OS 1.1)

 
Yeah, the 7.1.x series is the big hole in the System 7 releases that one is allowed to hand out for free. None of those are available for release. So, 7.0.1 or 7.5.3 but nothing in-between.

 
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Does anyone know the reason behind 7.1 being the only one not available?  Could it be some sort of deal with IBM or Motorola?

 
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I was just saying that if I had update disks from 7 to 7.1 I would have got it from apple online so 7.1 should not be any different I would think in its distribution.

 
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