What's the oldest version of Mac OS X you've still seen in use? [Archive]

Quillz

Jun 16, 2008, 03:45 AM

Our university iMac computers (the G4 "lamp shade") are still running Jaguar. Wow... Coming over to the Mac during the Tiger days, it's almost comical using Jaguar, with no Spotlight, Expose, anything. And they had the old Pro Mouse, so I actually had to do control-clicking, too.

Has anyone found a Mac out there that still runs any Mac OS X version that was released before Jaguar?

thejadedmonkey

Jun 16, 2008, 04:10 AM

My folks still use Panther (10.3).

Drexel still uses one button mice on their Power Mac's and Mac Pro's.

TheReef

Jun 16, 2008, 04:22 AM

10.1 (Puma) I believe, at school.

Plenty of Mac OS 9 at school too.

notsofatjames

Jun 16, 2008, 04:25 AM

This topic is nothing without pictures!!

TheReef

Jun 16, 2008, 04:31 AM

so I actually had to do control-clicking, too.
I am I the only one who is still using a single button mouse?

DoFoT9

Jun 16, 2008, 04:34 AM

I am I the only one who is still using a single button mouse?

no ;)

ergdegdeg

Jun 16, 2008, 04:34 AM

I am I the only one who is still using a single button mouse?

Are you using a mighty mouse? You know that you can right click by lifting the left finger off the mouse?

notsofatjames

Jun 16, 2008, 04:34 AM

I am I the only one who is still using a single button mouse?

I want to say yes, but I know the answer is going to be no. Someone here will still be using text based entry on an Apple I. I've got 2 one button mice in my drawer, but since I've got macbook, macbook pro, macbook air, I havent used them. Two finger tap trackpad is the best.

DoFoT9

Jun 16, 2008, 04:35 AM

Are you using a mighty mouse? You know that you can right click by lifting the left finger off the mouse?

hes an australian, of course hes sure :D

TheReef

Jun 16, 2008, 04:49 AM

hes an australian, of course hes sure :D
Spot on :D

This isn't Mac OS X, rather Mac OS 9, I don't have acess to 10.1 at the moment.
Guess what game :p

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/5885/pismopo3.png

DoFoT9

Jun 16, 2008, 04:55 AM

Spot on :D

This isn't Mac OS X, rather Mac OS 9, I don't have acess to 10.1 at the moment.
Guess what game :p

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/5885/pismopo3.png

i can honestly say i dont remember that game :( what is it?

TheReef

Jun 16, 2008, 04:57 AM

Hmmmm, maybe the "house" I chose isn't the best example.
See invisible text (below) when you give up :p
Glider PRO

DoFoT9

Jun 16, 2008, 05:05 AM

Hmmmm, maybe the "house" I chose isn't the best example.
See invisible text (below) when you give up :p
Glider PRO

is that the game where you are the paper aeroplane???

if so...

THANKYOU!!!!

i have been looking for that game since.. dad took away my LC575.. hahahahahahahaha

your a legend!

if not, then damn

TheReef

Jun 16, 2008, 05:08 AM

Yep, Glider PRO, it's free now for Mac OS X even :eek:

Get it here (http://homepage.mac.com/calhoun/Glider%20PRO.html)

DoFoT9

Jun 16, 2008, 05:12 AM

Yep, Glider PRO, it's free now for Mac OS X even :eek:

Get it here (http://homepage.mac.com/calhoun/Glider%20PRO.html)

your my idol*
*for the week :p

steve_hill4

Jun 16, 2008, 06:17 AM

DoFoT9

Jun 16, 2008, 06:20 AM

Relatively new to the Mac ownership game, so for me I see Leopard on a regular basis (upgraded old Tiger machine). I have a LCIII that I could set up with 7.6 on it, but the earliest OS X I have seen recently has been Jaguar.

Looking to buy a few older Macs still though, hope to have dual boot OS 9 and OS X soon.

why not emulate?? i find it pretty darn decent for the old games, just a BIT slower depending on what your playing.

if your willing to pay then having a good classic gaming machine is a good idea though, my g3 imac and 5000 is perfect for that

Sherman Homan

Jun 16, 2008, 06:32 AM

There are a number of pre-press houses that still run Quark 5 on G4s under System 9.2! I have a client who even runs PageMaker 7 :eek: Always a thrill to deal with the Extensions Manager!

eXan

Jun 16, 2008, 06:34 AM

The first OS X I've used was Jaguar on my eMac.

TheReef

Jun 16, 2008, 07:39 AM

Now that I think of it, I remember installing 10.1 on a PowerMac 7500 (Gasp) ages ago, very slow but it worked and was "functional".

steve_hill4

Jun 16, 2008, 07:50 AM

why not emulate?? i find it pretty darn decent for the old games, just a BIT slower depending on what your playing.

if your willing to pay then having a good classic gaming machine is a good idea though, my g3 imac and 5000 is perfect for that

Not a gamer, more a tinkerer, hence why I took my friends LCIII off his hands. Want to play around more with networking and learning more about the old systems.

Let an old PowerBook G3 slip on ebay yesterday. I knew it ended at 1600 BST, but forgot and was ever so slightly outbid. Went for £31 plus £15 shipping, I'd have happily paid that especially since I think it was upgraded heavily on HDD and RAM.

Barret Oliver

Jun 16, 2008, 09:03 AM

I know a college professor who still uses System 6 on one of those old beige boxes. And when he wants to send an email, he writes it using "WriteNow", prints it out, gives it to his secretary, who retypes it on a modern computer and then emails it. He says it works for him. :eek:

eXan

Jun 16, 2008, 09:05 AM

Barret Oliver

Jun 16, 2008, 09:07 AM

O_O

But isn't this thread about Mac OS X?

I'm "thinking different"

nick9191

Jun 16, 2008, 09:12 AM

Panther on the emacs at school. It sucks :(

Its pretty messed up, theres Panther on the emacs, then theres an iMac with Tiger, and there all running different versions of iLife. In fact the iMac is running iMovie 08 and iMovie 06, so its all screwed.

Panther was great in the day sure, but it totally sucks now.

PlaceofDis

Jun 16, 2008, 09:14 AM

i've seen people still running Jaguar on their powerbooks, even though they could probably handle Panther easily enough.
/shrug.

mkrishnan

Jun 16, 2008, 09:15 AM

I want to say yes, but I know the answer is going to be no. Someone here will still be using text based entry on an Apple I.

I use an Apple Wireless Mouse (one button) on my iMac also. Will I get a new mouse with my next Mac? Most likely, yes. Do I use taps and slides on my Eee's trackpad, and did I on my iBook's trackpad? Yes. Do I use gestures on my iPhone? Yes. But does any of that mean I am overly dissatisfied with the one button mouse on my iMac? No, not particularly. Meh. It works just fine. And Tiger on that iMac works just fine also. I miss Spotlight and Expose when they're not available (i.e. on this Win2003 computer right here). I don't really miss a right mouse button when it's not available. My next Mac will have Leopard or Snow Leopard on it, but I don't see any tremendous reason to upgrade the iMac just so I can be 1337....

As for the original question, I have seen Jaguar running; I don't think I've seen 10.0-10.1. I haven't seen Jag running often, and the last time I saw it, think it was on a computer running an EEG system, and to be honest, when you have scientific data recording equipment working properly, why on earth would you mess with it? I wouldn't be happy using Jaguar at home, though.

Kilamite

Jun 16, 2008, 09:18 AM

My old high school (which I finished 3 years ago) I hear is still using the original iMac's with OS 9.

Pretty shocking.

bart rijksen

Jun 16, 2008, 09:22 AM

Spot on :D

This isn't Mac OS X, rather Mac OS 9, I don't have acess to 10.1 at the moment.
Guess what game :p

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/5885/pismopo3.png

Hey, that was my first mac, untill it died. Had 10.2.8

steve_hill4

Jun 16, 2008, 03:08 PM

My old high school (which I finished 3 years ago) I hear is still using the original iMac's with OS 9.

Pretty shocking.

Remind me, which version of OS X is OS 9?

Sorry if that sounds harsh, but do you have any OS X comments to add to your post?

themoonisdown09

Jun 16, 2008, 03:38 PM

My friend's wife uses an old iBook that is running Jaguar. It sucks.

The General

Jun 16, 2008, 03:46 PM

System 6.0.8L on my Mac Classic II. :o

GGJstudios

Jun 16, 2008, 03:54 PM

Mac OS 1 (Kitten) running on a toaster-oven! :D (sorry, I couldn't resist!)

TheReef

Jun 16, 2008, 03:58 PM

Panther was great in the day sure, but it totally sucks now.

I'm running Panther on that Pismo pictured, working fine, perfectly functional, somewhat fast even. However lots of my favourite software is becoming Tiger / Leopard only :(

Laco

Jun 17, 2008, 01:10 AM

Yep, Glider PRO, it's free now for Mac OS X even :eek:

Get it here (http://homepage.mac.com/calhoun/Glider%20PRO.html)

wow thanks a lot for this!

dukebound85

Jun 17, 2008, 02:48 AM

i cant even imagine using jaguar now. i mean no expose would kill me

hard to believe i was content with it until i decided to get tiger (i skipped on panther cuz i wasnt really into macs back then....aka not geeky about them ha)

DaveTheGrey

Jun 17, 2008, 03:14 AM

Jaguar came preinstalled on my 12" 1GHz PowerBook. BTW the best computer I#ve ever owned :o

motulist

Jun 17, 2008, 03:16 AM

Gosh, if I found a Mac in a reasonably high profile place like a college library that was still using 10.2 jaguar or earlier, then if I had time I might try to do something about it. I bet that it wouldn't be super secured if it's been so totally neglected, so you might even be able to go in there with an OS X install disk and update it yourself!

richard.mac

Jun 17, 2008, 03:21 AM

Yep, Glider PRO, it's free now for Mac OS X even :eek:

Get it here (http://homepage.mac.com/calhoun/Glider%20PRO.html)

HA! i remember that game! played it on my cousins Pismo in OS 9. thanks!

tbohlsennswssrg

Jun 17, 2008, 03:23 AM

But at my school one of the computers was still running Windows 95 :D

tersono

Jun 17, 2008, 03:28 AM

yeah, last week I came across an iMac still running 10.0. The only non-system application it had on there was Appleworks.

motulist

Jun 17, 2008, 03:30 AM

Please tell us where you found the mac when you tell us about what OS version it was running.

hank-b

Jun 17, 2008, 03:54 AM

I have two iMacs - I run MacOS 10.3 on the G3 and 10.4 on the G4

Xavier

Jun 17, 2008, 06:34 AM

10.4.11 on my MDD

CWallace

Jun 17, 2008, 08:08 AM

We had 10.2 on two PowerMac G4s when we replaced them with Mac Pros, but I have subsequently purchased two Leopard discs to bring them up to the modern era because it was just too jarring going back.

D3LM3L

Jun 17, 2008, 02:34 PM

At school we have plenty of eMacs running 10.3, and I believe there's still a PowerMac that has 10.2 on it. I used it last year.

alexlovesmacs

Jun 17, 2008, 02:50 PM

mac os 9 on the kindergarden computers at my aunts school classroom and the other grades have new windows pc's i rather use os 9 than xp lol

MacsRgr8

Jun 17, 2008, 05:59 PM

Got to reply to this one...

I have a couple of older Macs @ Home just to re-live the good ol' days...

G3 Blue and White with Voodoo 5 for Mac OS 9 (with 3Dfx gaming :) )
iMac G3 (Rev A) for Mac OS X Server 1.2 (Rhapsody)
G3 Blue and White for Mac OS X Developer Preview 2 (install pic), Developer Preview 3 (install pic) and Public Beta (:cool:)
Cube G4 for Mac OS X Cheetah, Puma, and Jaguar. :apple:

Ugly pix (:D):

apfhex

Jun 18, 2008, 01:49 AM

G3 Blue and White for Mac OS X Developer Preview 2 (install pic)
You win. :D (so far at least)

When I took my job the PMG5 I use had 10.3.5 installed on it (dual 1.8GHz, I don't know if it shipped with a late 10.2 or early 10.3 installed). As much better Panther was than 10.0 through 10.2, Tiger and Leopard are still shockingly better than it. I have 10.4.11 on it now but still find myself reaching for the space bar to Quick Look a file. ;)

Even my old B&W G3 has 10.3.9 on it...

Makosuke

Jun 18, 2008, 06:26 AM

My parents have an iLamp on 10.3, and I've recently worked on some acquaintances' iBooks running 10.3 as well. Oldest I've seen recently is a friend's backup computer, a very beat-up TiBook, running 10.2. I also know an artist still running 8.1 on a 7500, but I haven't worked on it in a while so it's possible she upgraded.

This has nothing to do with a Mac, but I did seriously install NT4.0 on a battered laptop not two weeks ago. It was the only license we had that could be given away at work, and it was better than the mostly-broken copy of 98 on the thing. It didn't even run that badly, which I wouldn't have been able to say for 2000 or XP.

MacsRgr8

Jun 18, 2008, 08:04 AM

You win. :D (so far at least)
.

Technically, the Mac OS X Server 1.2 running on the iMac is older.

But one can argue that Server 1.2 isn't really a Mac OS X 10.x... no Carbon yet... etc.
:)

Kilamite

Jun 18, 2008, 08:06 AM

Remind me, which version of OS X is OS 9?

Sorry if that sounds harsh, but do you have any OS X comments to add to your post?

Did I say it was? OS 9 is nine years old. I think it is more shocking that they are still using that, than updating to OS X.

Now, not to sound harsh, but do you have anything worth-while to post that is related at all to the question, aside from being a smart ass?

krye

Jun 18, 2008, 08:40 AM

A co-worker brought in his 1.33GHz G4 PowerBook so I could check it out. He had 10.3..9 on it. He only uses it for surfin the web. That's it.

apfhex

Jun 18, 2008, 05:57 PM

Technically, the Mac OS X Server 1.2 running on the iMac is older.
Hah. Good point, I forgot about that. :D

daneoni

Jun 19, 2008, 06:06 PM

Panther 10.3.7 that shipped with my first mac...12" PB

toolbox

Jun 19, 2008, 06:11 PM

Oldest one i have seen is Panther which was shipped with my mac mini, which now runs leopard. My Se/30 still runs system 7.5

Jaffa Cake

Jun 19, 2008, 06:12 PM

One of our work Power Macs is running Jaguar and is still in daily use – it's just used as the machine for our scanner these days, it works perfectly well with it and the drivers so we see no need to go updating the OS. If it isn't broke and all of that.

kuebby

Jun 19, 2008, 06:36 PM

I remember in High School we had a few eMacs lying around that had one of the System 9s on it. And I once fired up my Dad's old Apple IIe. Then disassembled it.

Mr-Stabby

Jun 20, 2008, 09:22 AM

Original public release of Mac OS X on a Power Mac G3 Beige at work. It was the first G3 Mac i think and the last beige mac they ever made with the same design apple had used for years with the curved disk drive and Zip Drive internally installed. Last computer with ADB too wasn't it? Though i think the first Blue&White G3s still had ADB.

We still use it because it came with a great interface on a card which connects to our digital audio desks at work and integrates perfectly with Cubase. I tried actually putting the latest OS X on it (luckily i backed up the original), which i think was Jaguar at the time, it wouldn't take it and even after i hacked the install to actually let it be installed, all the shiny hardware in the computer now wouldn't work so i just reverted back to the original backup. Though it now happily runs with a USB2 and Firewire card in it.

It's amazing looking back just how much like Mac OS 9 the original Mac OS X release looked. It's also shockingly slow and unreliable! Even more so than Mac OS 9 was! The dock was massive, the actual UI was pretty featureless and bland compared to today. Everything was very clunky. It's amazing how much it has aged in just a few years. Windows 95 actually looks younger than the original Mac OS X in my view.

bluecrow628

Jun 25, 2008, 07:41 PM

i have the original clamshell ibook running mac os x dev preview II. iv considered selling it, but its too much of a novelty item for me to part with

FF_productions

Jun 25, 2008, 10:28 PM

This thread makes it seem like OS X is so old!

At my sisters school where she teaches, the kids use iMacs with OS 9...ok its not X but I don't think I've seen anybody with anything older then 10.4 recently.

I friggin miss my OS 7 Mac, memories, memories, and memories.

futureswitcher

Jun 25, 2008, 10:55 PM

I have an old iMac G3 (dated 10/30/1998) running 0S 9. It doesn't do much, but what it does do, it does better than any (newer) windows machine I have in my house

aross99

Jun 25, 2008, 11:02 PM

OS X 10.3.9
OS 9.1

I saw someone post a question about OS 8 the other day. LOL

superman193

Jun 25, 2008, 11:26 PM

motulist

Jun 26, 2008, 02:56 AM

I have an old iMac G3 (dated 10/30/1998) running 0S 9. It doesn't do much, but what it does do, it does better than any (newer) windows machine I have in my house

Okay, you've piqued my curiosity. What exactly does your OS 9 iMac G3 do better than a modern machine?

eXan

Jun 26, 2008, 03:43 AM

Okay, you've piqued my curiosity. What exactly does your OS 9 iMac G3 do better than a modern machine?

He didn't say "modern", he said "newer". Which could mean 1999 :)

panosg77

Jun 26, 2008, 03:45 AM

OS X 10.3.9 on my iBook

heatmiser

Jun 26, 2008, 05:01 AM

OS X 10.3.9 on my iBook

Yeah, before I was able to burn the disks necessary for installing 10.4 (iBook had only a CD drive), I ran 10.3.9 on my G3 for a few days last fall. The guy I bought the laptop from had been running it for a while, and seemed fine with it.

A few years ago, I worked at a store where we used G3 iMacs. I think they ran OS 9 or something. They were old, but ran the accounting software and gave internet access, which suggests you can use computers for years and years if your requirements are low.

dazzer21

Jun 26, 2008, 05:13 AM

...but not through choice:

I'm still doing heavyweight (relatively speaking) design work on a G4 MD 1.25 (2Gb RAM) using Quark 4.1, Photoshop 5 and Illustrator 9 among others. Turning out stuff just as quickly as a fellow designer using a PowerMac G5 Quad using Quark 7 and CS2. It's not what you've got, it's how you use it, I say...

Working via an agency for a huge (very satisfied!) client, too!

Don't ask why I'm still in the dark ages (iMac 2.8Ghz AL at home) here - it's too long a story...

Chundles

Jun 26, 2008, 05:16 AM

dazzer21

Jun 26, 2008, 05:28 AM

...but not through choice:

I'm still doing heavyweight (relatively speaking) design work on a G4 MD 1.25 (2Gb RAM) using Quark 4.1, Photoshop 5 and Illustrator 9 among others. So much for what version of OS X (trying not get off topic!), but I'm NOT ALLOWED to use OS ten point anything due to migration issues - I wsh I could!!! Using <whispers> 9.2!

That said, I'm turning out stuff just as quickly as a fellow designer using a PowerMac G5 Quad using 10.4, Quark 7 and CS2 so I guess I'm satisfied. It's not what you've got, it's how you use it, I say...

Working via an agency for a huge (very satisfied!) client, too!

Don't ask why I'm still in the dark ages (iMac 2.8Ghz AL at home) here - it's too long a story...

panosg77

Jun 26, 2008, 06:09 AM

Yeah, before I was able to burn the disks necessary for installing 10.4 (iBook had only a CD drive), I ran 10.3.9 on my G3 for a few days last fall. The guy I bought the laptop from had been running it for a while, and seemed fine with it.

A few years ago, I worked at a store where we used G3 iMacs. I think they ran OS 9 or something. They were old, but ran the accounting software and gave internet access, which suggests you can use computers for years and years if your requirements are low.

Well, the thing is that my wife currently uses the iBook and needs it mostly for music through iTunes, word processing and internet access. 10.3 however has a lot of issues, issues that were fixed with Tiger, so I guess that I will also burn the disks for 10.4 in the near future. :D

Dustman

Jun 26, 2008, 06:52 AM

i have the original clamshell ibook running mac os x dev preview II. iv considered selling it, but its too much of a novelty item for me to part with

Kind of off topic, but how do you have a 3.5 Ghz Mac Pro?

FF_productions

Jun 26, 2008, 01:19 PM

We are coming up on 8 years of OS 10 you know?:eek:

I'm getting old.

MacsRgr8

Jun 26, 2008, 02:36 PM

I'm getting old.

You've come to a sad realisation. Cancel or Allow?

FF_productions

Jun 27, 2008, 11:13 AM

You've come to a sad realisation. Cancel or Allow?

Allow.

Ryan Th

Jun 29, 2008, 07:09 PM

I still run mac os x 10.2 but i can run 10.5 but i love 10.2

richard.mac

Jun 29, 2008, 07:23 PM

^ haha but if you update youll have all the features you had in 10.2 + more.

no spotlight? AHHH!… i would die! at least update to Tiger.

Super Intendo

Jun 29, 2008, 07:43 PM

http://visualkingdom.com/surman.html

Some sort of extended step-family. He runs at TiBook G4 with 10.1 (PUMA) :eek: on it.

McGiord

Jun 29, 2008, 08:06 PM

I just can't wait to get back my eMac G4 with dual boot, it is in another country waiting for me to take it with me.
But I am running 10.5.4 with a MacBook + some good old Mac OS.
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elppa

Jun 29, 2008, 08:23 PM

I've had a customer come in who was running OS X 10.0

No point releases, nothing. He bought the machine and used it as is until it started to die late last year.

I was shocked when I saw the version number. More shocked that I am when they come in with OS 9.

Christ. It's almost unusable and unbearable by todays standards!

Did they enjoy waiting 15 dock bounces before the big blue E started up?

Did they enjoy having an OS that couldn't even burn a CD?

That's hillarious.