At 6:44 AM -0600 3/18/03, Ralph Tym wrote: >Here's the quandary I'm in. I want/need to purchase a new Mac, be it iMac, >eMac or tower, but it MUST be able to boot up in OS 9, first and foremost, >and OS X as well. Are any of the new Mac's capable of doing this anymore? Sure, you can buy a new Mac that starts up in 9, for a while yet. As long as it is not one of these models: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86209 Humbug