Just a little conquest for today - I got (from Freecycle) an original CD for a Power Mac 6100 (covers 6100/60, 6100/60AV, 7100/66, 7100/66AV, 8100/80, 8100/80AV), as well as one for a Power Mac 5200/75 and a ClarisWorks 3 disc 
Always nice to have the original disc as part of the collection as used Macs so rarely come with them - this seems to be one from the very first PPC Macs as it says System 7.1.2 on it. 7.1! - I can't imagine running 7.1 on a PowerPC machine, even if I see 7.1 on a 68k I think how old that is and I immediately get rid of it and put 7.6.1 on, any 7.x on a PPC would feel really strange to me, 7.1 especially so! Looking at the CD it looks like a real hack job of an OS, the way there's an extension in the boot folder on it called "PowerPC Finder update", as if it's an entirely 68k OS with a few patches to make it run on PPCs. There's a folder with lots and lots of demoes of various PPC software though.
One strange thing is that the largest writing on the front of it says "Power Macintosh CD", whereas the 5200 disc (and the 7300/8300/9600 disc that I also have) say "Apple Macintosh CD" on them, I wonder why they went back away from saying "Power Macintosh"? Did the later 68ks also come with the black and silver CDs that said "Apple Macintosh CD" or did all 68ks ship with floppies instead?
The ClarisWorks disc (no box or anything cool like that though, just the disc) has a Windows version on it as well as the Mac one, I never realised they did ClarisWorks for Windows (I am aware of and have a downloaded copy of AppleWorks 6 for Windows though, though I only found out about that fairly recently and was very surprised when I first saw it!).
Anyway, I know it's not much, but I thought I'd post it as a Conquest anyway!
Always nice to have the original disc as part of the collection as used Macs so rarely come with them - this seems to be one from the very first PPC Macs as it says System 7.1.2 on it. 7.1! - I can't imagine running 7.1 on a PowerPC machine, even if I see 7.1 on a 68k I think how old that is and I immediately get rid of it and put 7.6.1 on, any 7.x on a PPC would feel really strange to me, 7.1 especially so! Looking at the CD it looks like a real hack job of an OS, the way there's an extension in the boot folder on it called "PowerPC Finder update", as if it's an entirely 68k OS with a few patches to make it run on PPCs. There's a folder with lots and lots of demoes of various PPC software though.One strange thing is that the largest writing on the front of it says "Power Macintosh CD", whereas the 5200 disc (and the 7300/8300/9600 disc that I also have) say "Apple Macintosh CD" on them, I wonder why they went back away from saying "Power Macintosh"? Did the later 68ks also come with the black and silver CDs that said "Apple Macintosh CD" or did all 68ks ship with floppies instead?
The ClarisWorks disc (no box or anything cool like that though, just the disc) has a Windows version on it as well as the Mac one, I never realised they did ClarisWorks for Windows (I am aware of and have a downloaded copy of AppleWorks 6 for Windows though, though I only found out about that fairly recently and was very surprised when I first saw it!).
Anyway, I know it's not much, but I thought I'd post it as a Conquest anyway!
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