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Apple once built its own UNIX. And yes — it ran on Macs. This is Part 1 of my deep-dive into A/UX, Apple’s almost forgotten UNIX-based operating system from the late 1980s and early 90s. Installed on a freshly revived Macintosh SE/30, we explore how to get A/UX 2.0 running on a Macintosh SE/30: From partition layouts, recreating 800K floppies to the System 6 requirement and some other struggles along the way. It’s not just retro computing — it’s retro UNIX, with a twist of Macintosh Finder tossed in. In Part 2, we’ll dive deeper into application compatibility, how Apple tried to make the UNIX command line GUI-friendly, how bypass a stuck routing daemon, and how to multi-boot with System 7. Did you ever use A/UX? Or run into it at school or work? Drop your memories in the comments. In this episode: 00:00 Intro 00:36 Why Apple Built Their Own UNIX 05:01 Installation Prerequisites 06:38 Booting A/UX 2.0 From System 7? Don't! 09:39 Installing A/UX 2.0 - The Right Way! 12:15 Booting Into A/UX 2.0 13:34 Conclusion / Next on TPC 🔔 Subscribe for more retro hardware adventures! Want to join THE PHINTAGE SUPPORTERS or THE PHINTAGE ENTHUSIASTS community and get a mention in an upcoming video? Learn more here: https://www.youtube.com/@THEPHINTAGECOLLECTOR/join This video was made possible with support by: THE PHINTAGE ENTHUSIASTS: Alisha Manuela Stutz Christian Zerrahn David Schell Waseem al sammane ZyeByteVT THE PHINTAGE SUPPORTERS: Balint Szy Cecil Clank Elinars Feldi GrayT! heyday478 HMK Jack Beckman Jack Rosenthal John DiLiberto Luke Granger-Brown Matthew Veety MS-DOS Manfred Steven Glogger Tim Hull Wobinu Films xcalibur839 Z098 Zen the Fox Visit also THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR website at https://www.thephintagecollector.ch for insights into my retro computer collection. This presentation, Copyright @ 2025 THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR, Gianpaolo Del Matto. All rights reserved. Individual Copyrights apply for referenced material (see sources). Music composed by 🎶 Abdallah El-Ghannam https://www.youtube.com/@AcrossTheU.S.A | https://www.fiverr.com/abdallahghannam 🎶 rootkitty | https://soundcloud.com/rootkitty ℹ️ Sources: A/UX, General Resources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/UX https://betawiki.net/wiki/A/UX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniSoft https://wiki.preterhuman.net/Newbie_Guide_To_A/UX_(Apple_UNIX) https://www.aux-penelope.com/ https://archive.org/search?query=apple+unix&page=2 A/UX FAQ (Mirrors) http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/misc/jagubox/%252Fwww.html https://web.archive.org/web/19980713140351/http://jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov/aux/Info/FAQ.aux.201 A/UX Manuals and User Guides: http://bitsavers.org/pdf/apple/mac/a_ux/ http://bitsavers.org/pdf/apple/mac/a_ux/aux_2.0/030-0754-A_AUX_Installation_Guide_1990.pdf A/UX box art (custom/fan made): https://www.reddit.com/r/VintageApple/comments/wh6euu/aux_in_a_box/ #Tech Deep Dives A/UX Startup Error: https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/a-ux-initialization-error-standalone-program-space-is-too-small.36001/ Macintosh Startup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_startup https://lowendmac.com/oldmac/compact3.html