Greetings, As below............ > From: "C. F." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Well, its not shady cause he didn't bill it as 8.6, just G-3. He told > me personally later. > > 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. The Rev A beige G3s shipped in July 1998 had OS 8.1 (with enablers) included with it. We received eight of those that year. Carl, if you have 8.5, you can upgrade to 8.6 freely using an OS update download from the Apple site. This can be done in one step, 8.5 -> 8.6. There it stops, unless you find/purchase OS 9.xx. This would be installed in one step. OS 9 comes in several retail flavors; depending on what you find, it may be 9.04, 9.1, 9.2.1, 9.2.2 (the last). Also available (and what you have to watch out for) our machine-specific OS 9 releases that were meant to go with certain Macs, like an OS 9.2.1 installs for a late model G4. If you buy an OS 9.04 CD from a swapster, hold out for a "retail" version of the OS. You can then upgrade to 9.2.2 easily, but afaik, it too is a step by step process, 9.04 -> 9.1 -> 9.2.1 etc. (one does not update from 8.6 to 9.x). Hope this helps (someone!), and sorry if its a reiteration of any sort. Best regards, Dana
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