Blast from the Past: Apple Ships OS 8

I never used OS 8 or 9. I dipped my toe into DOS when System 7.1 was new. When Windows 3.1 came out, I bought a PC. I stopped upgrading my LC II at 7.5.1 and said goodbye to the Mac until 2004 when I bought a used Yosemite and loaded 10.3.5 onto it. When Tiger came out, I bought a dual G5 and it has been my main machine since that day.

@ number 20: it is the oldest mac offically supported by tiger. it was the first one with built in (not really) firewire, which is a requirement of tiger. tiger also requires 256mb ram, and I have 512mb, but it can go as high as 1gb. I have a 120gb HD in this thing, almost the maximum supported (128gb on the built in ATA33 bus), but it can go larger with a PCI ATA or SATA card). it has a DVD-ROM/CD-RW, using patchburn, I can burn in the finder. it also has a PCI USB 2.0 card. And when Leopard comes out, I plan on buying the oldest offically supported mac, or use xpostfacto. Living on the trailing edge of technology is fun.

panther required built in USB, so you can go out and get a original iMac and install 10.3.9. Apple is a very foreward thinking company. my Macintosh Plus, for example (introduced in 1986, but mine is either a 128k or 512k that was upgraded with an offical Apple upgrade kit) can run up to System 7.5.5 (released on September 27th, 1996), over a decade later, and 6 years after it was discontinued (the Plus was manufactured from 1986 to 1990, almost 5 years, making it still the longest produced mac ever).

At school I use OS 9 as often as I use Windows (which are my only options- Windows on every computer in the building, and OS 9 on the single Mac in my band room).

Heh. I found a PowerBook 160C in the den that I forgot we had. It booted right up to 8.0. :) Man, I sure don't miss using 8x8 patterns for a desktop.

So does anyone know a way to run os 9 on intel macs? I tried using sheepshaver with a os 8.5 cd, but couldn't actually get anything to work. I don't really care, but my roommate is a big fan of the Scarab of Ra game from back in the day, and I'd like to be able to let her play it.

Sheepshaver, with OS 9.04 on my MacBook Pro with a 200mb image so I can play...Sim Cinema Deluxe!

As well as FA-18 Hornet and other mainstays of that era.

vMac has the Mac SE ROM for B&W Crystal Quest, Chuck Yeager, and PT-109.

Man, I'm 28 now and I feel like I was born in a different century....oh crap.

iamdigitalman -
how the hell are you running 10.4.9 on a Yosemite???

hats off to you!

When OS X first came around, I was reluctant. I knew how to troubleshoot OS 9 (8,7) inside & out up & down. I was master of my domain. But with X, it was a level playing field. I felt helpless & missed OS 9 tremendously.
This past weekend, I helped a friend upgrade to a new iMac from his g4 running only 9.1. (no X on it at all) I had to poke around in OS 9 for a couple hours to get contacts, e mail messages, crap like that. YIKES! That sucked! Thank God for OS X!

@ #1: the compact macs, such as yours, use a 9" CRT, not 7".

and I keep a slew of old macs running various OSes: a classic running 7.5.5, a PDQ running 9.2.2, a 1400c running 8.6, my powerbook 100 running 7.0.1, my powerbook 180 running 7.6.1, and my baby: my Powerbook 540c running Mac OS 8.1.

and then there is this machine: My Blue and White G3 running mac OS X 10.4.9. it's 8 years old, and running the current OS. try running vista on an 8 year old PC. My advice: don't. Don't even try to run it on one 3 years old.

Has anyone booted into Classic recently? I had to fire up an old PowerMac 8100 last week... and it was actually painful to use OS 9.

So limited... so slow... so crashy... so one-thing at a time! I was tearing the flesh off my face like that scene in Poltergeist.