In article , "william strutts" wrote: > I had 7.1 on my Mac Classic II but it wouldn't mount DOS or > ProDOS diskettes. I have the original Apple black and white sales brochure for the Classic II and it states emphatically that it does under the title of "Features built into every Macintosh". Be glad to fax it to you or scan it and send an attachment .jpg if you'd like to see it first hand. Did you buy your Classic II new? If not, maybe someone played with it before you bought it used? On > System 7.5, there is no control panel. It just mounts the disk > if you insert them. Better look again. This is directly from my restore CD from a 6400/200 I'll quote the "get info" box: PC Exchange System Software 7.5.3 KIND: Control Panel SIZE: 360K on disk (362,993 bytes) WHERE: 6400 Restore CD: Hard Disk Files: System Folder Files: Control Panels CREATED: Tue, May 30, 1995 12:00 PM MODIFIED: Tue, May 30, 1995 12:00 PM VERSION: 2.0.5 Apple Computer, Inc 1990--1995 I just checked a System folder that has OS 7.6.1 and it's PC Exchange Control Panel is version 2.1.1 Apple Computer, Inc 1990--1996 OS 8.1 has it too. Version 2.2 OS 9.0.4's is just named "File Exchange", but it's the same thing. Version 3.3 Barry Allen In article , Barry Allen wrote: > My distribution disks do have PC Exchange and ProDOS File System on the > Master disks. It also has Foreign File Access, High Sierra, Apple Photo > Access (Kodak Photo CD) and ISO 9660 Extensions. > > My release is 7.1.2 (1992). Maybe that's the difference. 7.1.2 was released with the first generation 6100/7100/8100 PowerMacs. As you say, 7.1.2 included PC Exchange. System 7.5 was released three or four months after 7.1.2. It became the default Mac system for both PowerMacs and 68K Macs; it was the first standard release for 68K Macs that included PC Exchange. I've just checked the dates of the ReadMe files on the two CDs for 7.1.2 and 7.5 and the year is given as 1994. PC Exchange was previously included with the System 7.1 Pro release but NOT the standard System 7.0 and 7.1 releases for 68K Macs. System 7.1 Pro was an add on $$ release which basically included AppleScript and PC Exchange with the OS. PC Exchange was an add on $$ extra for System 7 for several years prior to 7.5. The PC Exchange control panel from System 7.5 can be installed on System 7.0 and 7.1 (there should not be a licencing issue as System 7.5.3 is freely downloadable). An alternative product to PC Exchange is/was Dayna Dos Mounter. I think that this one may work with Mac System 6. Phil > I remember PC Exchange being a stand alone product too, so somewhere along > the line Apple must have decided to include it with the release. > > Maybe when the Performa line was introduced? When the first Performas came > out they came bundled with all kinds of software and CDs etc. Maybe this > was another bundled goodie and they decided it made sense to make it > available across the distribution line. > > The Classic II brochure just says System 7, no further clarification. > > My experience with 7.5.3--7.5.5 and 7.6.1 is that they always worked just > like my 7.1, so I never gave it another thought. > > I can honestly say I've never used a Macintosh with System 7 and above > (worked with hundreds) that did not do ProDOS and MSDOS disks. I was just > playing around with Apple File Exchange and then deleted it from a floppy I > had. > > Barry Allen