system 7 was the first apple operating system to be available on compact disc, although it shipped on a set of 15 floppy disks initially. unlike earlier systems, system 7 did not come bundled with major software packages. newly purchased macintosh computers had system 7 installed and were often bundled with software such as hypercard, at ease and mouse practice. later, the macintosh performa family added various software bundles including clarisworks, the new grolier multimedia encyclopedia, microsoft bookshelf, spectre vr and power pete. since system 7 was introduced before the internet came to popular attention, software such as mactcp, freeppp and netscape were not included at first, but was later available on disk from internet service providers and bundled with books such as adam c. engst's internet starter kit for macintosh. power macintosh machines also included nucalc, a graphing calculator. system 7 also includes appletalk networking and file sharing software in the form of system extensions and control panels.