Re: OT: Japanese language kit & update to OS 9.1

From: Philip Spaelti (spaelti@SHOIN.AC.JP)
Date: Mon Jan 15 2001 - 12:29:02 AEDT


But you need to be residing in the U.S.

I just bought Mac OS 9.0.4 a week ago, and I have a qualifying Mac, but I still couldn't use the update offer. The order form refuses to process without a US address, and the small print says as much.

On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 07:01:26 -0600 Michael Slavin wrote...
>Not according to this quote from their web site. There's a list of
>models, older ones I believe, that supposedly need the CD to upgrade, but
>the text below is not requiring any Mac at all for qualification. I've
>always run MacOS, for example, but am only recently back to Mac machines.
>"ANY VERSION" I would take to include OEM bundles as well, so if you
>bought a clone that included OS 9 you should be able to get this CD
>direct from Apple as well.
>-m

>quoth Rod and Glenda Thomas (rmthomas@JADE.DTI.NE.JP) on 1/14/01 6:53 AM:

>>Michael Slavin wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> >From the Apple website:
>>> **** Apple is offering the Mac OS 9 to Mac OS 9.1 Software
>>> Update program to allow customers who own any version of Mac OS 9 to
>>> obtain the Mac OS 9.1 full install CD for US$19.95. Details and an order
>>> form are available at www.apple.com/macos/***
>>>
>>Yes but to order this CD upgrade you have to have a qualifying Mac (ie a
>>new one)

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Philip Spaelti
Kobe Shoin Women's University
spaelti@shoin.ac.jp
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