My 9600 (this is the 8500 with added 9600 motherboardthat I've written about before) has an XLR8 Mach Speed G3 processor card. When I got it, it was running OS 8.6. I installed OS 9 and 9.1 on top of the existing installation and it ran fine (wouldn't let me install 9.2, however). But because the hard drive (an IBM 18GB, SCSI) was partitioned, I decided to reformat it. Reformatting worked fine with Apple's Drive Setup. But now I can't install OS 9; I get a message that says I "can't install it on this computer." I figured this had something to do with the software for the G3 upgrade card, but when I try to install the latest version of XLR8's Mach Speed Control, I get a message that says a cache on the mother board has been detected that has to be removed. I'm suspecting that I have to install OS 8.5 first, then the Mach Speed Control, then upgrade to OS 9/9.1. But where do I purchase OS 8.5?
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