{"id":31821,"date":"2015-07-20T11:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=31821"},"modified":"2015-07-21T10:36:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T15:36:12","slug":"apple-iigs-system-6-0-1-gets-upgrade-after-22-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/31821-apple-iigs-system-6-0-1-gets-upgrade-after-22-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple IIgs System 6.0.1 Gets Upgrade After 22 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31823\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/about602.jpg\" alt=\"about602\" width=\"600\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/about602.jpg 600w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/about602-191x120.png 191w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/about602-284x178.png 284w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/about602-190x119.png 190w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/about602-272x170.png 272w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/about602-191x120@2x.png 382w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/about602-284x178@2x.png 568w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/about602-190x119@2x.png 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Software updates for an operating system shouldn\u2019t be surprising in the modern computing age, but this recent update certainly caught us at the <a href=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\">Rocket Yard<\/a> off guard. After more than 22 years, Apple IIgs System 6.0.1 has received <a href=\"http:\/\/www.callapple.org\/software\/announcing-apple-iigs-system-6-0-2\/\">an update to 6.0.2<\/a> with \u201cmany bugs fixed and many features added.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No, Apple hasn\u2019t decided to resurrect its work on the operating system. A group of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apple_IIGS\">Apple IIgs<\/a> fans are responsible for the upgrade and even hint at a 6.0.3 update \u201cin a month or so\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you\u2019ve been looking for an excuse to dust off the likely several inches of dust from your IIgs, now would be the perfect time.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about the \u201cproof-of-concept\u201d update (free for download) and its features here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.callapple.org\/software\/announcing-apple-iigs-system-6-0-2\/\">callapple.org\/software\/announcing-apple-iigs-system-6-0-2\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Software updates for an operating system shouldn\u2019t be surprising in the modern computing age, but this recent update certainly caught us at the Rocket Yard off guard. After more than 22 years, Apple IIgs System 6.0.1 has received an update to 6.0.2 with \u201cmany bugs fixed and many features added.\u201d No, Apple hasn\u2019t decided to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":31823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2366,2646],"class_list":["post-31821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-news","category-industry-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.2 (Yoast SEO v20.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Apple IIgs System 6.0.1 Gets Upgrade After 22 Years<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Software updates 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