Full Boxed copy of OS 9 + More

[Mike Richardson]

I went to the Goodwill Clearance Center today. This is where they take all the stuff that doesn't sell elsewhere. They put it all in bins, and put the bins out on tables. When the guy finishes putting the bins on a table, everyone proceeds to ravage through the bins looking for anything good. When everyone is done the bins sit out for another hour or so and then anything unsold gets thrown away.

I didn't find the OS 9 box in a bin though, it was off to the side where some TV sets where. I got it, along with a VCR, a book, and a 2WIRE DSL Modem, for the grand total of $4.60. The VCR rang up as $3, the modem rang up as $1, and then there is a line "BOOKS 25¢", so I guess I got the OS 9 for free, or maybe she thought it was a book.

When I get home and open up there's even more than I expected!

- DELL Mousepad

- Mac OS 9 CD

- Mac OS 8.6 CD

- Power Macintosh G3 Restore CD

- Norton Utilities 7.0 for Mac CD

- Plastic bag with manuals for a 17" Studio Display with driver CD

- Manuals for OS 9, 8.6, and Norton

All in all worth the drive to the west suburbs. Now I have official real discs for 8.1, 8.6, and 9.

 

[Bolle]

nice one on the OS 8.6 cd! i hate having to upgrade my way frm 8.1 to 8.6 everytime i want to install 8.6.

 

[Unknown_K]

Nice haul, I still need a 9.1 cd for my legit OS collection.

I think you can only upgrade to 8.6 from 8.5, 8.1 is a dead end.

 

[MacMan]

Excellent, it's always great when you get good things for next to nothing!

 

[MacTCP]

Fantastic ;D

 

[funkytoad]

Super Awesome!

 

[LCGuy]

Nice haul, I still need a 9.1 cd for my legit OS collection.
I think you can only upgrade to 8.6 from 8.5, 8.1 is a dead end.

Yep, you're right. For OS 8.5 users, 8.6 is a free upgrade, but 8.1 owners have to get a full retail install CD. I know that because i upgraded to 8.5 back when it first came out, and i know that OS 8.5 was a paid-for upgrade (and 8.6 was free after that), as was OS 9.

Either way, not a bad haul...apart from the Norton CD [xx(] ]'>

 

[Mike Richardson]

Norton is bad?

It rescued my 7200 the other day. (I have Norton 6 on a ZIP Disk). It was booting to this Error 41 or 47 or something, and then when I booted off the ZIP Disk the hard drive was gone. It had some major Btree errors that Norton fixed up. Disk First Aid wouldn't do it.

 

[LCGuy]

I haven't used it on Macs in years, but on PCs at least, it is a very, very, very, very, very bad, bad, bad, bad, bad thing. NUM 3.x used to be good back in the days of System 7...Norton Disk Doctor 3.1 saved my ass too many times to count back in the days when the LCIII was my only machine. But in modern times, on PCs i find it causes more problems than it helps.

 

[Mike Richardson]

I think because on Windows it installs all this weird stuff and does all this other crap you don't really need. I just simply booted off the ZIP disk and ran Disk Doctor and it was great. Saved me from having to lose all of my work installing Win 95 to the DOS card. Speed Disk is also a useful utility. I can't say I really use the other ones though.

 

[equill]

I agree that NUM 3.2.x was excellent (and still is) for what it can do with 030-processor Macs, and 040 Macs running no higher than 7.6.1. Received wisdom at one time was that NUM never leapt over the chasm to HFS+. Whether that is/was the cause or not, it was many times reported that its use with HFS+ format was, to put it mildly, fraught.

DiskWarrior will deal with System 7 HDD directory fragmentation, but it does not boot (or, at least, v2.1.1 does not) less than OS 7.6.1, and its companion file defragmenter PlusOptimizer demands a PPC processor. Norton's SpeedDisk (not always so speedy at 16MHz with 1GB drives and up) is an excellent file defragmenter for older Macs.

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