Hi, Matt. Thanks for the advice. The owner wasn't shady about it, just confused. The ad did not mention the OS at all, I didn't think to ask. My first personal computer, and it is interesting. The problem seems to be to upgrade, you have to go step by step, 8.5 then 8.6 then 9whatever. This is what I am told. And 8.5 seems to be hard to find. Even tho as you say 1998 was the year they changed to 8.5 and 8.6. That is just five years ago, whew! Carl. --- Matthew Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Carl, > > Unfortunately ya might not have any recourse, as far > as the shady dealings > of the previous owner. Unless ya physically saw, > with yer own two eyes, that > the beige G3 was indeed running OS 8.6, ya have no > way to know that it > wasn't merely represented as having OS 8.6, but was > in fact running OS 8.1. > > Have ya priced OS 9 installation CD's, or even > considered going to OS X? I'm > kinda having a bit of trouble with the concept of OS > 8.1 even being on a > beige G3 of the vintage that ya describe. When I > ordered my AIO G3, directly > from Apple back in August 1998, it came to me with > an OS 8.5 installation > CD. > > Sorry that ya ended up with a shady "deal," here. It > sounds like when the > previous owner "deleted their own files," they > really reformatted the hard > disk, and installed whatever was on the nearest > retail CD. Hope some others, > here, can offer ya better guidance. > > Matt in Indiana > -- > "FrankenMac" MT; 333MHz G3; 768MB RAM; 30GB & 20GB > HDs; zip 750; 8x4x32x > CD-RW; Sonnet Tango USB/FireWire; M-Audio Audiophile > 2496; ATI Radeon 7000 > > > -- > G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> > and... > > Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | > Refurbished Drives | > -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | > & CDRWs on Sale! | > > Support Low End Mac > <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > G-List list info: > <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, email: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! > http://www.applelinks.com >
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