And it's hard to even find the download links, and a lot of them don't work.

And aren't even hosted by Apple!

And it's funny how at the same time they're still hosting...

Apple IIGS OS System 6.0.1 https://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Sof...

The whole 19 floppy images of MacOS 7.5.3 https://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Sof...

(whoever inside of Apple is responsible for for keeping these links alive, thank you for your dedication!)

Is there a way to browse this thing?

Apple stopped showing browsable index files many years ago but someone scraped the wayback machine for URLs and I re-scanned it for more dead links and put up a list of links a while back https://mirrors.kalleboo.com/apples-download.info.apple.com-...

This is incredibly helpful! Thanks!

[deleted]

It'd be really nice if there were a place with authoritative original sha/md5 sums for the various ISOs, DMGs etc that are floating around.

Huh? They're all linked from https://support.apple.com/en-us/102662

"Use a web browser for older versions" was not working for me the other day, though I now cannot remember if it was when I was dealing with a Safari version with old/unusable SSL. I was able to load the webpage, though, so SSL was working there, and therefore something was different about the download links than the page itself.