Hi Listers, Several of you have wondered why I am running such creaky OS's. In short, the only non-machine-specific system disks I have laying around are 8.0, 8.1 updater, 9.2 and 10.1.
My 9500, bought new by me, shipped with 8.0. I updated to 8.1. Somewhere along the way I borrowed a friends 8.5 disk and upgraded to 8.5.1. That had to be quite some time ago. Since then I've added the G3 card, some RAM, and a USB card, which claimed to need 8.6 to work, but has worked just fine under 8.5.1. The thing has been rock steady for years. Never had to nuke and pave or even reload the system. I bought a used iMac 333 last year and bought 10.1/9.2 retail and run that on the iMac. It has an iMac 8.5 system restore disk, but I don't know how or if I can use that as a standalone installer on the 9600. My wife has a TiBook that came with 9.0, but she's living in another city right now, and I don't know if the Powerbook disk will load the OS on the 9600. I suppose I could have her send me a copy and I could try it, then upgrade to 9.1. The 9600 came to me with 8.0 on it. I reloaded 8.0 and updated to 8.1. I would like to get a retail 9.1 disk, but so far the only reasonably priced one I have only come up with is the OEM one that OWC sells that says is only for G3-G4 machines. Would like to get a full retail 9.1. I tried posting to swap list, but my post didn't show up. I'll have to try again. Anybody want to sell me one? I plan to jump the 9600 to at least 10.1 to get it to parity with the iMac, so I can run the same latest versions of various software packages on both (Vectorworks 10 in particular). I've got 544 MB RAM in the 9600 now, and 176 in the 9500, which I'll move to the 9600 when all is said and done. So there is no limit to what I ought to be able to run on this thing. Once x-post-facto is working for 10.3, I'll probably spring for a retail package of that. Then I'll probably part out the 9500. Sorry for rambling on so. Steve Zerby __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.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/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
