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The Mac OS 7 (codenamed "Big Bang" and sometimes called Mac OS 7) is a single-user graphical user interface-based operating system for Macintosh computers. It was introduced on May 13, 1991 by Apple Computer. It succeeded System 6, and was the main Macintosh operating system until it was succeeded by Mac OS 8 in 1997. Features added with the Mac OS 7 release included cooperative multitasking, virtual memory, personal file sharing, an improved user interface, QuickTime, and QuickDraw 3D.
With the release of version 7.6 in 1997, Apple officially renamed the operating system "Mac OS", a name which had first appeared on Mac OS 7.5.1's boot screen. Mac OS 7 was developed for the Motorola 68k processor, but was ported to the PowerPC after Apple adopted the new processor.
Soon after the initial release of Mac OS 7, the 7.0.1 minor update was released in October 1991. A patch named with the extension "Tune-Up" also followed, which fixed the "disappearing files" bug in which the system would lose files In August 1992, the 7.1 update was released which introduced the Fonts folder. This replaced the often time-consuming method of dragging fonts to and from the System file, introduced in Mac OS 7.0; it also replaced the Font/DA Mover application from System 6, which could also be used with 7.0.
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If anybody is looking for more disk images, please look here:
http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/syslist.html
I think I still have those 800k floppies.
I can upload them if they are all readable still.
I haven't been using them for decades.
Any chance of anybody uploading an 800k version of this?
I will try it on my iphone