Somehow, altho it was upgraded by the previous owner to OS 8.6, the tower has downgraded to OS 8.1 again!! Go figure!! It must have happened between the time he deleted some programs in order to sell it to me, and the time I first booted it up. No hint of any presence of another operating system on the hard drive except 8.1. Puzzle for all of you out there in OldMac land. Can this happen?
Don't panic.
I know of no way it could revert to 8.1. If 8.6 was indeed on the computer it must have been on a separate partition or hard drive. The computer is booting into the only usable operating system.
I have discovered that it could cost $120 to buy the 8.5 or the 8.6 disc from HardcoreMac.com. That seems like a lot.
It is. Try the LEM Swap List or eBay for 8.5. The 8.6 update is free from Apple. You really should be using 9.1, or better yet 9.2.2, on this computer. These OS's are easier to find and probably even cheaper.
This has become a special issue for the important reason that dial-up modems now are requiring OS 8.6 and so are DSL modem installation programs. At least the one at SBC/Yahoo does.
Nah. Don't believe everything you read or hear. Any dial up modem will work with 8.1 down to... what is it folks 7.0 or maybe 6.0, with the proper software.
Good luck.
J. B.
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