And it was a mess too. The USB support was fairly broken outside of
basic HIDs, and for whatever reason it seemed like a lot of apps didn't
like it. I'm not sure if it was stuff not interacting well with the G3
or just the general age of the 8.1 subsystem. I was working for the ISP
MindSpring at the time and we spent a good couple or three months trying
to get existing both USB dialup modems and the USB DSL bridges we
provided working without much success. 8.5 was a huge leap in stability
and functionality for those first generation iMacs, and they really
should have shipped with them. I sort of recall Apple offering either a
free or cheap upgrade to early adopters to 8.5, but I could be wrong.
Scott
On 12/29/2010 10:39 PM, Grayson Williams wrote:
This is not true, the original Bondi Blue iMac G3 ran 8.1.
Only shipped with 8.1 for a couple of months though.
On Dec 29, 2010, at 8:37 PM, tortoise wrote:
There was never an iMac that ran 8.1, the first iMacs ran 8.5
But in most places, if it is an original real Apple CD, the holder of
the license = the holder of the CD. The guy who sells it or gives it
away is responsible for not using that license anymore (for instance
if they have upgraded their iMac to os9)
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