3 Apr
2005
3 Apr
'05
6:08 p.m.
On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 10:26:33 +1000
Benjamin Gardiner <cvisors at gmail.com> wrote:
On Apr 2, 2005 9:52 AM, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at
floodgap.com> wrote:
I downloaded the 9.1 upgrade install from Apple about a year ago. It
'worked' for me even though I only have 'official' OS8 install media,
because one of the Macs I bought at auction had a diagnostic CD with a
bootable OS9 system folder. I copy the system folder off the CD onto a
system's bare hard drive, then copy in the update install binary.
Reboot the machine and run the upgrade installer. The barebones OS9
This is on topic, since 9.1 will run on any Power
Mac. Apple has now
offered OS 9.1 for free download. And no, it's not a joke.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75103
Unfortunately this looks like only an update not the full version, so
it requires you to have mac os 9 allready installed.
Benjamin from the CD is limited to the point of being useless,
but the upgrade
installs a full OS9.1.
I don't consider MacOS 9 on-topic, though. The only on-topic PPC
hardware I have is a POWER 1 RS/6000 system. My interesting Macs are a
pair of SE/30's, and a Mac IIfx that came (from an auction) with Nu-Bus
data acquisition and IEE-488 cards, and vintage Labview on the hard
drive (thanks, Purdue!).
Is anybody trying to collect a complete set of ALL the Mac hardware?
There is a tremendous variety from the middle years.