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Article #2201Re: PowerMac 8500/120 - What OS versions?
From: Paul Durrant
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 00:00
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In article <bPI9MAApBeh0EwjZ@charmf.demon.co.uk>, Dave Besnard <daveb@charmf.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Thanks for responses to date. My main problem was that the de-virused > and damaged system was 7.5.5 and although I had upgrade floppy disks > from version 7.3.1 to 7.5.5 the machine would not accept them - > presumably because the disks themselves were 7.3.1. Because the machine > stores the current version of the OS in non-volatile memory it is only > possible to upgrade the OS to a higher version. In my case 7.6.1 or > 8.0.0. This is incorrect. No Macintosh stores the current system version in it's non-volatile memory (PRAM). Also, there is no system version 7.3.1. Perhaps you meant 7.5.3? The only reason you'd be unable to install 7.5.3 on a machine would be if the machine was newer than 7.5.3 so that the installer didn't recognise it. Paul Durrant
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10b5a2,74162d7324db4a05 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b5a2,public From: pdurrant@durrant.demon.co.uk (Paul Durrant) Subject: Re: PowerMac 8500/120 - What OS versions? Date: 1997/12/05 Message-ID: <B0AD858B966811969AE@192.168.1.1> X-Deja-AN: 295430520 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: durrant.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.81] References: <T$a1kDAk6Ag0EwpC@charmf.demon.co.uk> <19971130191920120592@roxley.demon.co.uk> <B0A881A196681D7AF@0.0.0.0> <1997120319023813755@roxley.demon.co.uk> <bPI9MAApBeh0EwjZ@charmf.demon.co.uk> Organization: Durrant Software Limited Newsgroups: demon.tech.mac