How does licensing work in the Mac world? I'm more a PC guy (who used Apple
II and Mac-LC era machines back in school days), so my perspective for
comparison comes from there... In the PC world (at least since the later
Windows 95 days), the PC manufacturer put a label on the PC when it was
built
You can use a copy of whatever originally came with the machine. In the case of
a PowerBook 190 that would be OS 7.5.2 which is freely available from Apple.
Charlie
On 29 Dec 2010, at 13:10, Wesley Furr wrote:
> How does licensing work in the Mac world? I'm more a PC guy (who used Apple
> II an
I'll solve this discussion right now I'm sending him an 8.1 cd from the iMac
I'm giving him it's his choice to come pick up the machine or not so :P
Ed
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On Dec 29, 2010, at 7:25 AM, Charlie Lowndes wrote:
> You can use a copy of whatever originally came with the machine. In
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 i
i beg to differ my bondi-blue imac came with an orange os 8.1 CD and
an orange restore CD
Ed
On Dec 29, 2010, at 9:37 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 holde
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
>
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 a