Understandably, this Apple article has been widely used as a source of (mis)information on the Internet, including Wikipedia. See my discussion of how this mess was made: The develop CD and its spawn. These mistakes then carry over to Apple's tech specs and other documentation for early Macintosh hardware online. But the numbers are ill-conceived, and the early timeline is simply not accurate. The article assigns ex post facto version numbers to earlier releases and presents a timeline.

The first numbered 'Macintosh System Software' release was version 5.0 in October 1987.In the first table, 'System 2.0 Finder 1.1g' should be System 1.1 Finder 1.1g.Apple Macintosh before System 7 Hardware releases~Software releases Macintosh 128K and 512K~manuals~software bundles Macintosh Plus and 512K e~manuals~software bundles Macintosh 512K/800~Macintosh ED Apple OEM upgrades Disk images~Working with older disk images The develop CD and its spawnĪll information presented here is based on primary sources, mainly original, unmodified Apple disks and other Apple documentation.Īnyone interested in this history must be especially careful when reviewing the information presented in Apple Knowledge Base article TA31885, Macintosh: System Software Version History, a secondary source that contains major errors: This software and cassette were bundled with the Apple Macintosh System Software. It visually guides you through the use of Macintosh, the Finder, and typical Macintosh applications.

Guided Tour of Macintosh Mac128k This is a software and audio cassette demonstration of the Apple Macintosh. Officially the System revision was 1.0, but the internal number reported '0.97'. It used a flat file system (MFS) that only emulated folders.

It was released in 1984 with the original Macintosh and ran with 128k RAM, 400k 3.5' floppy drive, monochrome video, and a mouse. System 1.0 (0.97), Finder 1.0 was the first official, stable release. Macintosh Plus, BasiliskII also emulates 68K but supports newer hardware as well e.g. Emulators: BasiliskII, MinivMac Mini vMac emulates the 68K processor macs (older software) e.g.

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