Good. As yo most likely know, OS 9 is called "Classic." You can start
"Classic" and in fact,
put an icon in your "menu bar" to start classic anything by simply selecting the
"System
Preferences icon (in OS X) look for "System" category. You will see an icon for
"Classic 9"
select it and look for the option "start/stop. " You should see a place to
"select" show
Classic 9 icon in menu bar.

Yes, I highly reccomend the "discussions at the Apple site." Needless to say,
like many I
spent an entire career working on Windows machines, but simply decided one day -
to
learn something "different" so I bought an iMac G4.

Most everything I know comes from reading the Apple site and asking questions -
just like
you are doing!

M.


--- In macaholic@yahoogroups.com, "Selondria MoonWillow" <bohemianwytch@m...>
wrote:
> Hey, thanks for that advice! I'll have to get on their site & find those
disscussion boards.
After several more calls to apple & one more to epson, epson is the one who
fixed the
problem. Seems it's as simple as installing a complete version of OS 9. Then I
guess
there's a way for me to choose either to start my mac using OS 9 or OS X. If I
want to use
my old progams I start it up using the OS 9.
>
> Thanks again all!
> Selondria
>
>
> While I can't solve your problems, I do know what you are talking about when
it comes
to
> looking for help with the phone service at Apple. Might I suggest you post
these
problems
> in their (apple.com) discussion area. I have done this a couple of times
since I became
a
> Mac user in 2002 and I find the advice excellent and it has solved all of my
problems.
>
> Keep in mind, Apple service is rated as tops by a consumer magazine. So,
imagine
what
> that means for other folks...
>
>
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