I need to upgrade to Lion. It ISN'T available on Mac App Store.

I purchased Snow Lion directly from Apple online. How can I get Lion? It is suppose to be available for 19.99 on disk from Apple. I have used the search features and it leads me to Mac OS X 10.8. My mac can't run that. Lion is it for me.

Snow Leopard is available on disk, then when you install or upgrade to 10.6.3, then Software Update to 10.6.8, the AppStore appears under the Apple Menu and you can upgrade to 10.8 from there.
If your machine is not capable of 10.7, then call Apple by phone and order 10.7 that way, they will provide a download link.
I should warn you that 10.7 and 10.8 are rather heavy for older hardware and will NOT run your older PPC based software and drivers.
Please backup your data off the machine before upgrading, as it can get hairy.
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