I'm not that stupid, we buy them outright!
I was afraid you were going to say what you said. I didn't have time to even hook it up or look it up but I had a PPC Mac before, it ran whatever the OS was before X but it would never install any version of OS/X that I had access too even though the guy that gave me the disks said it ran on his what he said was identical machine before he upgraded to some badboy version of the notebook Mac. And, these were the older version of X, he'd upgraded to the latest already so I didn't what the problem was. I said I'd buy his old one since it ran O/S X but he'd gotten rid of it in an e waste day at his work. Speaking of e-waste, I was at one of those places and in the 80s I would have killed to get my hands on that hardware, now it's just so much junk, sad but at least it (I assume) isn't going to a landfill.
But if you says it'll run O/S X.4.11 Tiger, then that's what I'll try. The one I had before was the tower version of those colored all in one Macs so it was kind of funky but it was well made inside. It worked, it ran well and hooked right up to the network and DHCPd it's way into talking. It even ran Linux which while I like Linux, I didn't want to waste a Mac running something I could do on a 100 different clones.
I might have to take you up on that offer of the disk, it isn't installed somewhere else is it because , all joking aside, I don't really like software piracy since it's stealing no matter how you phrase it and it raises prices for the rest of us.
Thanks for the offer on the disk. Maybe I'll get to be the annoying relative who screws up his computer and expects free at my door service.
I hope I can find one. We used to have around a dozen of them, but I too did a general cobweb and e-waste clean out so I could get to my pool table and wood working tools a few years ago. I'm pretty sure I still have a OSX.5 Leopard somewhere in the garage of my Stockton house. Finding a generic OSX.4 Tiger install disk is going to be more problematic.
What speed processor is in your Mac? That determines what you can get away with. Leopard is far superior to Tiger. Some still claim it was the best version ever.
Hmmm. I still have my old original 2003 PowerMac G5 Tower that my ex-wife was using until the power supply decided to let the magic blue smoke out last year. I got her a brand new Intel Mac mini as a replacement. It's still sitting in the garage gathering dust. The drives in that G5 are still good, I think. I can't recall if it was running Tiger or Leopard when it died. All it needs is a new power supply which I've never gotten around to buying. I always kept a disk image of the current OSX on one of the drives. That's another possibility. Possibilities.