Public Beta works just fine...
croshtique said:
OS X public beta expired early 2001 I believe so I doubt it will work anymore.
It works fine. You just have to set your clock to 2000. And disconnect the network connection on boot. (It auto-syncs the clock on boot, even if you have network time sync off, so if you have it plugged in to the network, it will sync the time, and complain that the beta has expired.)
I'm running it happily on an original iMac. (The Apple in the center of the menu bar is a little disconcerting...)
What *I* really want, though, is OS X Server 1.x (The Mach/BSD core OS that still had the OS-9 look to it. Before Aqua. Before it was OS X 10.x)
For that matter, I'd also like to get my hands on A/UX for my old Workgroup Server...
Nitpick time... Before 7.6, it was 'System x', not 'OS x' So it would be 'System 7.0', not 'OS 7.0'. (Although the 7.5.1 and above bootup screen said 'MacOS', it was still officially 'System'.) And before System 5, there was no overarching 'System' number, you referred to it by the individual version numbers of the System file and the Finder file. Only after Apple started calling System 4.2, Finder 6.0 by the combined term 'System 5.0', did people back-number the previous releases.