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.
Apple Macintosh before System 7 Hardware releases ~ S oftware 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:
