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os9er joined us in November 15, 2013, and has been a member for 7 years 3 weeks.
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Hello, all, and welcome to my profile/guestbook page. I've had an interest in "classic" Macs since I was quite young, when I received my parents' 2003 eMac G4/1GHz as a hand-me-down after they got an early-2009 iMac as a replacement. (Side note: They're still using that iMac, even though it's slow as all hell on OS X "El Capitan" with only 2 GB of RAM Tongue ) Since then, I've had quite a collection of Mac models pass through my hands; of course, some of them got pretty well broken after a while, but I had fun with 'em while they still worked.

Here's a (not-so-quick) list of my history with "classic" (and Intel) Macs, for those who want to take the time to read it. Tongue

My current Macs:
-- iBook G4/1.07GHz (12-inch, early 2004)
-- iBook G4/1.33GHz (12-inch, mid-2005)
-- PowerBook G3/333MHz "Lombard"

Macs I've owned previously:
-- Xserve G5/2.3GHz DP
-- Macintosh PowerBook 165c/33MHz
-- MacBook Pro 13-inch (mid-2012, 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5)
-- PowerBook G3/500 "Pismo"
-- iBook G3/500 (mid-2001, "Snow")
-- Mac Server G4/933MHz "Quicksilver"
-- PowerBook G4/1.67GHz 17-inch "Aluminum"
-- iBook G3/466 SE "Key Lime"
-- Macintosh LC III
-- Macintosh PowerBook 160
-- Macintosh PowerBook 1400cs/117
-- iBook G3/300 "Tangerine"
-- iMac G3/450 DV+ "Indigo"
-- PowerBook G4/867 15-inch "Titanium"
-- eMac G4/1GHz "SuperDrive"
-- MacBook (white polycarbonate, late-2006)
-- MacBook (black polycarbonate, mid-2007 / "Santa Rosa" chipset)
-- MacBook Pro 15-inch ("pre-unibody", mid/late-2007 / "Santa Rosa" chipset)
-- Mac Mini G4/1.42GHz (mid-2005)
-- Mac Mini (Intel, ~2009)

"Classic" Mac OS versions I've used and/or messed with in the past (in order from oldest to newest, and with associated machines/emulators in parentheses):
-- 6.0.8 (emulated, Mini vMac)
-- 7.0.1 (emulated, Mini vMac)
-- 7.1 (PowerBook 160, PowerBook 165c, Macintosh LC III; emulated, Mini vMac)
-- 7.5.3 (PowerBook 1400cs; emulated, Mini vMac)
-- 8.0 (PowerBook 1400cs; emulated, BasiliskII & SheepShaver)
-- 8.5.x (emulated, SheepShaver)
-- 8.6 (PowerBook 1400cs; PowerBook G3/333; emulated, SheepShaver)
-- 9.0.x (iBook G3/300, iBook G3/466, iMac G3/450 DV+; emulated, SheepShaver)
-- 9.1 (iMac G3/450 DV+)
-- 9.2.x (iMac G3/450 DV+, iBook G3/300, iBook G3/466, PowerBook G4/867 15-inch, PowerBook G3/333, PowerBook G3/500, iBook G3/500)

Kind of an exhaustive list, but I wanted to put it in here anyway, and I will update it every now and then as my "inventory" changes. Thanks for reading Smile

Regards,
-os9er

semvalidade2006
2017, August 7 - 10:57pm

Hi there. Are you still ok on sharing your medias with me? The shared folder is still open and ready to accept more CD/DVD dumps.

I left there an updated version of my catalog. You can e-mail me (semvalidade2006@gmail.com) if you want to swap some media dumps.

Comment by os9er

If I can find the bandwidth I could probably upload a couple of them... I'll do that as soon as possible.

semvalidade2006
2017, June 25 - 9:17pm

Hi. I am after the Leopard Server media(s). If your offer still stands, I want a copy of this DVD. Can you include a photograph of the DVD media and/or case?

Not just this particular media, but any other Apple media (DVD,CD,FD) you have I will be very happy to have a copy of it.

I have this shared folder set-up for file transfer.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByhVBLo68lMoR1JncUJFZTdTbWc

On very same folder you will find a file called Apple_PN.txt which contains a list of all Apple medias I already have and some medias that I am after.

Comment by os9er

I'll try to take some pics of the disc and upload them, although I don't have a box or anything of that sort. However, uploading disc images is another matter. My wi-fi is unfortunately data-limited at 20 gigabytes per month, both upload and download combined. If I tried to upload a DVD disc image, it'd probably use up 4.7 to 8.5 gigs of that all at once (in other words, the same as a DVD's capacity), and that's something I can't do. My ISP charges about $10 USD extra for every gigabyte over the limit, and I can't afford that. (Unfortunately I can't afford anything better either. :-/ )

On the positive side, though, I also have the "Administrative Tools" DVD for the same version; I could probably send pics of that as well.

I have a copy of pretty much every OS X version up to Leopard, although some are machine-specific; for example, I have a set of Tiger DVDs, but they're for the Mac Mini G4/1.42 and won't install on anything else (I did try them on an iBook G3/700, it didn't work).

My disc collection:

-- OS X:

- v10.0.3 retail
- v10.1 retail upgrade (requires pre-existing 10.0.x system)
- v10.1.3 retail
- 2 copies of v10.2 retail (2 CDs each set)
- v10.3.4 Server retail (including Administrative Tools CD)
- v10.4 for Mac Mini G4/1.42 (DVD)
- v10.5 Server retail (DVD)

-- OS 9 and earlier:

- Mac OS 8.0 retail (CD)
- System 7.5.5 for Power Computing PPC Mac clone (CD)
- System 7.1 (custom-compiled boot disk for PowerBook 160) (1.44 MB, 3.5-inch floppy)

I could make images of most of these; there are a couple that I already have images of, although in the case of 10.1.3, I don't know whether the image works for booting a machine. I could possibly upload something as long as it's a single CD image and not multiple images or a DVD image.