Many thanks for all the replies - good to see a fair few folk still hanging out here and willing to share their knowledge!
Very good, I found DiskCopy 4.2 that runs under System 7.0 and was able to mount the image files and create 800k floppies. I do indeed now have a installable set of 6.0.8. I'll do the install this evening (I hope), and then move on to System 7 - I picked up boxed editions of 7.1 and 7.5 at a library sale some years, as well as Acrobat 5 (licensed!), StuffIt Deluxe 4.1, Symantec C++, and White Pine eXodus (X server for System 7.x) - the latter of which dovetails nicely with my previous GUI experience...
I was in the IT industry from 1989-2005, as a db admin/programmer, using Sun servers running Solaris 1 and 2.x (I happened to have begun using Unix - Research Version 6 - while in high school, on a PDP-11). So most of my background has been in UNIX. Even my computer at home was a SPARCstation IPC running SunOS 4.1.4 that I bought in 1993. Then I began collecting older UNIX-based workstations starting around 2001 - Sun, SGI, and NeXT, all networked (10B-2, 10B-T) in my basement computer room. Fun days, the Golden Age of collecting these machines.
I have missed the Golden Age for the Macintosh 680x0 and early PPC machines but I'm willing to sacrifice a few more dollars to gather some up. Shipping does leaven the joy somewhat....$80 total for my 7200/120 (with PC card, I'll play with that someday). Great fun pulling out my boxes of Mac software from college - actually I've discovered they're mostly 400k disks (the 7200 with MacOS 9.0 likes none of these - MFS, I imagine). And discovering LocalTalk/AppleTalk has been a great boon, allowing me to get the SE's connected to the outside world via the 7200.
Cheers,
crimsonRE
Very good, I found DiskCopy 4.2 that runs under System 7.0 and was able to mount the image files and create 800k floppies. I do indeed now have a installable set of 6.0.8. I'll do the install this evening (I hope), and then move on to System 7 - I picked up boxed editions of 7.1 and 7.5 at a library sale some years, as well as Acrobat 5 (licensed!), StuffIt Deluxe 4.1, Symantec C++, and White Pine eXodus (X server for System 7.x) - the latter of which dovetails nicely with my previous GUI experience...
I was in the IT industry from 1989-2005, as a db admin/programmer, using Sun servers running Solaris 1 and 2.x (I happened to have begun using Unix - Research Version 6 - while in high school, on a PDP-11). So most of my background has been in UNIX. Even my computer at home was a SPARCstation IPC running SunOS 4.1.4 that I bought in 1993. Then I began collecting older UNIX-based workstations starting around 2001 - Sun, SGI, and NeXT, all networked (10B-2, 10B-T) in my basement computer room. Fun days, the Golden Age of collecting these machines.
I have missed the Golden Age for the Macintosh 680x0 and early PPC machines but I'm willing to sacrifice a few more dollars to gather some up. Shipping does leaven the joy somewhat....$80 total for my 7200/120 (with PC card, I'll play with that someday). Great fun pulling out my boxes of Mac software from college - actually I've discovered they're mostly 400k disks (the 7200 with MacOS 9.0 likes none of these - MFS, I imagine). And discovering LocalTalk/AppleTalk has been a great boon, allowing me to get the SE's connected to the outside world via the 7200.
Cheers,
crimsonRE