What was the Last Mac to boot in OS9?

Powermac G4 MDD (Mirrored Door Drives)
rev A FW400 -- Without FW800

 

PowerMac G4 MDD rev A -- the one without FW800.

Apple released the PM MDD rev. B with FW800 killing OS 9 -- then went back to the rev. A machines, which they kept around as the OS 9 Legacy machines.

Of course the last actual consumer machine sold in the regular AppleStore happened to be the eMac G4 -- but that machine turned into pot luck on which SDR machines actually shipped with OS 9 bootablility at the end. Some were capable, some weren't.

If a G4 has DDR memory it won't boot os 9, if a PM has FW 800 -- won't boot OS 9. If it's an SDR eMac, there is no clear cutoff.

 

thanks for the clearification
i knew it was a powermac g4 of some kind (took my best educated guess)


if yoor friend wants a powermac g4 that can handle all his apps in os9 send him my way i have a upgraded g4 that i may be willing to part with

 

He might be better off getting a mac mini and upgrading some of his software. Some of that runs fine in classic mode. (One thing I don't know -- does the mini run clasic mode?)

 

The absolute last machine to support OS 9 booting was the PowerMac G4 MDD (2003).

When Apple came out with the PowerMac G4 FW800 model which could only boot OS X, they also had the MDD 2003 which was essentially the MDD introduced in 2002. (But fewer configurations.)

 

The Power Mac G4 Dual 1.42 GHz MDD, I believe.

 

That was a Rev. B machine with FW800.

 

I got my PowerMac 1.25 single in October of 2003 - it was the last of Apple to have OS9 installed. The duals had been discontinued at that time.

 

I don't know the answer to that, but might I suggest your friend will want to keep his old system for a while to handle things that need OS 9 and won't run in classic mode?

 

The Linotype scanner may run under

http://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/vuescan.htm#linotype

or the SilverFast software

http://www.silverfast.com/product/en.html

Since it is probably a SCSI scanner, a new SCSI card will be needed, and probably a new one again later when switching to a G5.

But unless he has the OS X version of Quark ... it may be a pain.

The Apple LaserWriter would need a AppleTalk-to-Ethernet Bridge.

Basically, this was the pain of switching to OS X, and some of the newer machines.

Edit: Basically a pain to test the scanner out on your G5, since you have to test/debug SCSI cards and software.

 

Why doesn't he just get the G5 tower and run Classic for the OS 9 applications? Then upgrade them later one at a time, maybe.

--Eric