I'm giving my old G3 to a friend and I want to wipe and re-install the OS. I have the last version of classic installed and I find it to be more unstable than previous versions. (maybe it's me or some extension issue, dunno) I have heard that that 9.2.2 or whatever it was...was more flaky than previous versions of 9.

Any of you guys have a take on this? Which version you prefer?

Kind of sad for me to part with this old paint, it's been a very good machine.

either 9.1 or 9.2.2

9.2.1 or 9.2.2 has a much better Finder, and the finder is quite a bit faster when you are working with huge directories (like a folder with hundreds or thousands of pictures for example) And the Firewire drivers, and the ability to work with DOS formatted FW drives is better under 9.2.x

What Racer X says. If 9.2.2 is unstable for you, you probably have an extension conflict. My beige G3 with 9.2.2 is as stable as my albook with Tiger (though I do shut it down daily, which I don't do with Tiger).

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9.2.2 seemed find to me on several iBooks and my daughter's too.

Kraniac Sez.:
"Mast stable version of old Mac os..classic?"

There is a Mast for OSX?
WOW!! Apple does everything!

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RacerX has the answer.

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My first response, I swear, was to say 7.6 (which was the last system I remember that gave me the least problems before I went OS X). Of course, the last time I had a Mac running under pre-X I was on 9.2.1 I think on all the Macs I used & administered. So I'd have to agree with the 9.2.2 recommendation.

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9.2.2 was like an old friend. I hated to give it up. Classic does not do anything for me.

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yeah i know classic isn't the old OS, dont really know what to call the old OS..the Old os, THE old OS. whatever. I probably have an extension issue with the thing based on your re's. I remember installing an audio editing program in the thing, quite a while ago ,and it fritzed me extensions. Went through the old process of disabling stuff and I think i screwed it. Soon after, I migrated to OS 10 and a diff machine and never resolved that old conflict me tinks.

6.0.7 - no multifinder!

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9.1 or 9.2.2

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6.0.7 - no multifinder!

6.0.8 --- with better LaserWriter support! I never saw my folks's Mac SE w/SuperDrive ever crash with 6.0.3

Man, this is one type of thread we sure don't see much of anymore.

yep, got a firend who needs to run an old scsi scanner and a program that he designs his paintings in...some old software that wont act right on his current box. something like that. He needs the g3 so it gets a good home. In a couple of weeks he'll probably have the case covered with Elvis Presley bumper stickers. this thing is mazed out with memory and has a USB card and it's actually very functional for lots of stuff these days. I used it regularily until about 6 months ago. end of story.

I've got the original 8.1 mac disk but i need to figure out how to get it back up the 9 versions. I did it for free before but I cant remember how.



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I will concur with 9.2.2...and 9.2.1 was fine too (but might as well go up to 9.2.2 if that is the case). With that said...8.6 has been very stable - and I say that because of a web server I have that is still running, for many years, a heavy-traffic site utilizing WebStar, Lasso, and several FM databases! lol

Just haven't had the time to upgrade and shift everything over to newer versions.

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8.6 or 9.2.2.

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My first response, I swear, was to say 7.6 (which was the last system I remember that gave me the least problems before I went OS X). Of course, the last time I had a Mac running under pre-X I was on 9.2.1 I think on all the Macs I used & administered. So I'd have to agree with the 9.2.2 recommendation.

Years ago I would only run OS versions that had a 6 in them.

6.0.5
7.6.1
8.6

For MacOS 9, I've been happy with 9.2.2