Is OS 9 still supported

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Is OS 9 still supported

I am the Mac tech at our college and we are using OS 10.4.3 on all our machines. One lab has older SCSI to USB adapters that the company no longer makes a driver for. Short of the department spending 6K on an upgrade to the interfaces they may want to roll back the OS to 9. I really don't want to do this as I see it as only a workaround and want them to mave up to Tiger. So what is Apples official stance on OS 9 support?

Posted on Nov 4, 2005 9:40 AM

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Answer 1

Mark Jones

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Nov 4, 2005 9:46 AM in response to Geoffrey Shaffer

They don't support OS9.

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Ron JACKLE

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Nov 4, 2005 10:32 AM in response to Geoffrey Shaffer

Geoffrey Shaffer...

What kind of SCSI device are you referring to? Even in Mac OS 8 or 9 there can be some unseen issues but so little is known about the specific device. $6,000 seems awful pricy for SCSI interfaces. Care to spill some beans on that?

...Ron

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Nov 4, 2005 11:32 AM in response to Ron JACKLE

They are Pasco Explorer GLX 700 interfaces. Used in our Physics lab to hook up multiple measuring devices that send measurements and data a the application Data Studio. They were used years ago and hooked up with a 25 pin SCSI port. We went to leasing our Macs 3 years ago. I specced out the eMac 700 which only came with USB and firewire, our department bought adapters from Adaptec to convert them to USB. Adaptec does not make a driver for OS X as stated on their web site.

Pasco does make the same interface same modle 750 that is USB, they are 660.00 a peice. THere are 10 machines in the lab, hence the 6K price tag.

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