[Ti] OS 9

[Wendy Townley]

I haven't run OS 9 in over a year. I believe I removed it from my Mac 
(a dual USB iBook at the time) during Macworld San Francisco 2002.

-Wendy

On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 11:29  PM, Jerry Krinock wrote:

> on 03/06/11 17:51, Wendy Townley at wendy at wendytownley.com wrote:
>
>>  I have no need for OS 9 on my Mac.
>>
> I believe it is easy to remove the OS9 System Folder, and I thought of 
> doing
> this myself a few months ago, but I recommend that you do not.
>
> You may need to run a Classic application someday - I know that you 
> have not
> for the last year, but Murphy's Law says you will need to, the day 
> after you
> remove it.
>
> I now use OS 9 for one thing, which is to reverse the "fn" key action 
> on my
> function keys, so that I can use F1-F12 for QuicKey menu access without
> pushing the fn key.   I need to boot into OS 9 and reset the control 
> panel
> every time I install a new OS X update.  Strange, hbut true.  There is 
> no
> way to change this control in OS X.
>
> Last week I was at the Apple Store and asked a Genius for some
> troubleshooting pointers.  His advice?  "Boot into OS 9 and see if it 
> works
> in OS 9".
>
> In an ideal world, we could all delete our OS 9 System Folders, but it 
> is
> not an ideal world --- yet.
>
> Jerry
>
>
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Wendy Townley
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