Boxed OS X Tiger!

[Brett B.]

Never thought I'd see or score this, but I picked up a complete boxed retail copy of OS X Tiger on DVD today from the thrift store for $6.  

I'm actually really happy about this because the only retail Tiger DVD I have is worn to the point where it is almost unusable.

It'll also look cool with my other boxed OS software.

 

[CC_333]

Neat score! And for $6! Wow!

I've never had the full retail box of Tiger, but eventually (once prices come down from the stratosphere some more), I'd like to get boxed copies of 10.3-10.5 (I have single boxed copies of Mac OS X Server 1.0v1.3, 10.1 (Puma?), Jaguar, and several boxed copies of Snow Leopard and everything since has no box).

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[Brett B.]

"full retail box" is a weird, subjective term in this case: the "box" is actually about the size of one of those CD jewel cases that holds 4 discs.  There aren't any huge books or anything, just a couple license agreement pamphlets, the Tiger DVD, and an iLife disc.  It might actually get lost on display with the others since it's 1/8 the size of everything else.

Offhand I think I have boxed copies of OS 8.0, 9.1, 10.0 Server, now 10.4, one or two others, and several versions of DOS and Windows as well.  Love em.

 

[unity]

Well the retail box was large like the ones prior for Tiger. Is it in fact DVD? It could be an upgrade set or CD set. I dont recall, but I think Tiger came on DVD and was the first to do so. So if one wanted CD version, it had to be ordered from Apple.

 

[Gil]

I thought tiger came in a "full-size" box, at least originally. I know Leopard came in the "mini" box and everything after.

I've been recently trying to obtained boxed copies of the OS X versions as well. So far have 10.3 and 10.5

 

[Brett B.]

Certain versions in larger boxes, maybe?  The sticker on this one says "Mac OS X 10.4.6 RTL" 

It is on DVD and I can't see any indication that it's an upgrade version.  I was mistaken about iLife, I meant iWork.

 

[unity]

That may be the legacy copy? That is the one sold post-Leopard days. Mine is certainly in a large box.

 

[Brett B.]

Hmm, cool.  Well now I have a mission to acquire both!  Ha.  

 

[TheWhiteFalcon]

Yeah, mine is a large box as well.

 

[joewhk]

As I recall there were 3 versions of Tiger DVDs. 10.4.0 and 10.4.3 were in traditional, large boxes while 10.4.6 (the first Intel-compatible version) comes in small boxes. 

All Mac software comes in small boxes since then. 

 

[leon]

And then you'll start trying to collect all the server versions as well.