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Post #2 by Rasmus
Source Forum68kMLA
CategorySoftware
Post DateMon, 7 Mar 2011 - 16:04
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/macpaint-0-95-amp-macwrite-alpha-release-1-5.22506/
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A MacWrite alpha version 1.5 is not inconsistent with a later release version 1.0, so that doesn't mean anything. It just shows how Wigginton numbered his builds. Atkinson and Apple were using a different system at that time. [i've always wondered what they planned to do if the pre-release builds reached 0.99 -- would they then go to 0.991, and so on?]

Someone needs to check what versions of MW/MP are on the Tour disk that came with the pre-May 1984 software bundle. I know the System file was version 0.85, but I forget the Finder information. What is the Finder information on your disk?

My instinct is that your disk was somehow cobbled from the first Tour disk, but I don't know if that is possible to do. If it is not possible, then you may have a significant bit of ephemera -- a pre-release Macintosh test disk. Can you show us the label on the disk?

What do you see when you select the disk itself in the Finder and do Get Info?

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