[vcf-midatlantic] OT: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard .iso needed

Ray Sills raysills3 at verizon.net
Wed Aug 17 08:16:35 EDT 2016


I agree with David… OS 10.4.11 is very stable.. still have it running on a older iMac and a Mini.

73 de Ray

> On Aug 17, 2016, at 12:42 AM, David Riley via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
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> On Aug 16, 2016, at 11:42 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
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>> Off-topic -- I acquired an iMac G5 (PowerPC) today. The previous owner put Linux on it. I want to go back to OS X 10.5 Leopard (it won't run anything newer). Unable to find any working online links to download the .iso file. Can anyone help?
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> I can help, but I would recommend Tiger (10.4) instead; it's faster, and it'll still run Classic (for running pre-OS X apps).  The only benefit I can think of for 10.5 on PPC is Time Machine, but for a vintage machine, that's not much of a draw considering all the drawbacks.  Leopard was a real stinker on PPC.
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> - Dave
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