In article <bpnfk5$luh$1@cobalt01.janis.or.jp>, Ed
<gwbush@whitehouse.com> wrote:

> All I know is that it has version 8 something of a mac OS.

I'd suggest you ask your specific questions of the crew here:

comp.sys.mac.apps

Everybody's all a-flutter over the recently-released OS 10.3, so there
not exactly enthralled with dealing with an ancient system 8.

The 8500 won't run OS X, but it is upgradeable to 9.2x.  I have 9.21 on
a separate partition for older stuff.

Additionally most of the shareware/freeware (commercial as well) is
still available for the older (meaning 9.x) systems. There's much
cut-out and discontinued software still available for such systems.

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