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System 7 Disks and System 7.6 sealed box

Fine, snub my plain and boring box art!
JS, why don't you post some pics of your Apple disks when they arrive? It's your thread after all (btw, I was not expecting my System 7 box to gain the attention it did).

 
Yeah, I suppose I should. The pictures were fairly average, so I'll take some better ones to put up. After all, what is a conquest without photos? A nonquest.

 
The disks arrived today, and I'm pretty pleased. The 12 800k floppies all work, and I took Disk Images of them so I can store them securely. It is System 7.0, and it all works perfectly!

The System 7.6 box was damaged, so I took off the shrink wrap, but everything inside is in as new condition. All the manuals, CDs, floppies, warranty cards, even a small brochure for the 'new'G3 iMac.

 
Very nice. I'm curious though - how did an iMac brochure get into a sealed System 7.6 box? Mac OS 8 was released around July 1997, and the iMac didn't become public knowledge until April 1998. I can't imagine they would have still been making new copies of System 7.6 by then...

 
I know, it's a bit weird. Everything in the box has a copyright date of 1997 (except the iMac 'Think Different' brochure), so maybe they did continue to sell for a little while afterwards? It is Australian stock too.

Also, there is a disc inside for 7.6, and one for 7.6.1.

 
If I remember, Apple still sold certain versions of the system for some time after they had formally been discontinued. I seem to recall Apple still selling 7.1 about ten years ago.

 
Bump from the future - I have finally taken Concorde1993's high res scan, floated out the text and other elements, and cleaned the cropping and scratches. If anyone would like a copy please let me know, but it's a 6MB .xcf (The Gimp file format) with all the layers preserved.

Low res preview:



 
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