Readers: Can You Help?
March 26, 2008
Posted by Dan Edelen in : Miscellany, Technical Functions : Trackback,
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Yesterday, I was given a free computer. It’s an older Mac G4, but it has one capability my ancient Mac lacks: it can run Mac OS X.
Once, many moons ago, I was something of a Mac/PC guru. So much so that Apple hired me to compare and contrast Mac and PC systems. My team developed the materials that helped Guy Kawasaki’s evangelist team do their jobs. In fact, I wrote the Apple book on Mac and PC comparisons, literally.
When I was at Apple, I purchased my “lifetime” Mac under Apple’s employee purchase program. It was state-of-the-art in Macs back then. Unfortunately, changes were afoot with that guy, Steve Jobs, coming back to the company at that time, and soon there was a new OS on the block, an OS my once state-of-the-art Mac could not run.
Unable to run the latest OS on my Mac, I never did learn OS X, something that led to my “guru-ness” going kaput. Now I have that chance to regain those skills.
What I don’t have is the OS X discs. The Mac I was given is a 400MHz G4 tower with AGP graphics. I understand that configuration can run up to Mac OS X 10.4.X Tiger that was just replaced by 10.5.X Leopard. It’s too slow for Leopard.
If anyone out there has old 10.4.X discs on CD that they no longer need and would be willing to send to me, I would be grateful in the extreme. Though 10.2.8 is loaded on this computer, I’d like to wipe the existing OS and also have copies of the OS should something bad happen. I’d also like to replace the hard drive in the unit with a larger one, and having the OS discs would be essential.
Drop me a private e-mail at the address at top right and let me know if you can help.
Many thanks in advance!
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