Mac OS9.1

[Guest]

Welp. Here's an odd one.

I recently bought a mac g3 to flip, but I first want to reset the system as it has a bunch of private stuff from the previous owner. 

Is there any way in the software that I can reset the system? Alternatively, how could I go about burning a boot CD and resetting it that way? Retro Mac tech is way over my 'paygrade'. 

[Master Disaster]

Mac OS 9 is pretty much Public Domain at this point, get an ISO from here.

 

I'm pretty sure the G3 can run up to OS X 10.6, the CD version of 10.3 is here

[Guest]

5 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Mac OS 9 is pretty much Public Domain at this point, get an ISO from here.

 

I'm pretty sure the G3 can run up to OS X 10.6, the CD version of 10.3 is here

Ah thanks! It's just a matter of burning it with a Windows computer and inserting into the g3 right? 

[Master Disaster]

4 minutes ago, ImadKnight said:

Ah thanks! It's just a matter of burning it with a Windows computer and inserting into the g3 right? 

I'm actually not sure tbh. Something like IMGBurn should do it from Windows I'd imagine.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

I'm actually not sure tbh. Something like IMGBurn should do it from Windows I'd imagine.

Guess I'll be digging up the ol' CD-Rs tomorrow. 

Now if only I could find the boot floppys for my Macintosh SE... 

[Master Disaster]

8 minutes ago, ImadKnight said:

Guess I'll be digging up the ol' CD-Rs tomorrow. 

Now if only I could find the boot floppys for my Macintosh SE... 

Mac OS 7.0, 7.1 & 7.5 floppy images are here

 

Unfortunately that site has nothing earlier

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Mac OS 7.0, 7.1 & 7.5 floppy images are here

 

Unfortunately that site has nothing earlier

Yet again, thanks! 

Some internet digging could probably yield some isos somewhere. 

 

[Master Disaster]

Just now, ImadKnight said:

Yet again, thanks! 

Some internet digging could probably yield some isos somewhere. 

 

Yeah, turns out I lied. The site labelled it as System Software (with no indication it's Mac OS) but everything from 1.0 to 6.0 is here

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Master Disaster said:

Yeah, turns out I lied. The site labelled it as System Software (with no indication it's Mac OS) but everything from 1.0 to 6.0 is here

Sweet, even better. Might have to throw my floppy drive back into the case

[ProjectBox153]

On 10/1/2017 at 5:26 PM, Master Disaster said:

Mac OS 9 is pretty much Public Domain at this point, get an ISO from here.

 

I'm pretty sure the G3 can run up to OS X 10.6, the CD version of 10.3 is here

Just a heads up, the G3 iMac can only run up to 10.4.11 if it’s a newer model. PPC Macs can only run up to 10.5.8, so 10.6 is out of the question even for G5 Macs. 

[Guest]

16 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Just a heads up, the G3 iMac can only run up to 10.4.11 if it’s a newer model. PPC Macs can only run up to 10.5.8, so 10.6 is out of the question even for G5 Macs. 

I think it's a newer model with 256mb ram standard. Still need to dig up the other settings.