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MacOS 10.3 Panther Retail in WHITE?

  • 19-03-2009 2:56pm
    #1
    WUSBDesign
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    Chanced upon a iMac G3 (Indigo) in pristine condition with black Apple pro keyboard/mouse and ....*wait*... a iSub (or iSub2000). Surprisingly, the 350MHz PowerPC was enough to play back MP3 files smoothly - and does that iSub go BOOM!

    Question: with this was a set of 10.3 installation CDs, was told it is retail. Now this printed side of these CDs is WHITE. I only come across such discs in black. Can anyone shed some light? Pirate copies?


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  • #2
    Sad Professor
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    Probably. My Panther discs are black. Jaguar ones are white though.

    Indigo iMacs would have come with Mac OS 9. So it's possible he never bought OS X and just downloaded it. It should be pretty obvious from the discs.

    Where did you get it? Ebay?


  • #3
    fugazied
    Closed Accounts Posts: 162 ✭✭fugazied


    Yeah my old panther discs are black too.
    I wouldn't worry about the discs not being legit. I am tempted to get an iMac G3 too, for internet and music, tey are incredibly cheap on ebay now x.gif


  • #4
    WUSBDesign
    Closed Accounts Posts: 549 ✭✭✭WUSBDesign


    Got these off from a private seller on an ad site. eBayers will have thrashed the box and sold the iSub separately.

    No, the discs looked to be of stamped, production quality - no tinting whatsoever. And definitely 10.3. I am puzzled too - I've owned Pather through Leopard retail sets.

    These hundred-MHz iMacs are actually powerful enough for music and simple surfing - too much Flash and they go AWOL. Must try and stock up PC100/PC133 512MB RAM DIMMs, smell a niche market on the grow :D .


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