Need help with my 1st Mac!!

I just bought my 1st Mac used on Ebay. It is a 700Mhz G4 iMac. It came with no disks and has Panther pre-loaded on it. Can I just buy a retail version of Tiger to install or do I need to buy all of the upgrades leading up to tiger? What is the original operating system that this came with anyway?

Hello and Welcome to Apple Discussions.
You can just buy Tiger straight off; it's a full package. You can buy a single license, Family license for 5 Macs, a single education license and all come with the same disk. Be aware Tiger ships on a DVD and not all iMac G4 700MHz have a DVD-ROM drive. (You can check by going  Apple Menu > About this Mac > More Info > ).
Apple hasn't done the Upgrade version thing for several years now.
This table has a list of all the OSs that were supplied with which Macs. It's difficult to know exactly but it's between 10.1.2 and 10.2.3 with OS 9.2.2 for "Classic" support. Be aware that Classic is a way of using the old legacy OS 9 within the modern OS X architecture. As a new Mac user I'd ignore it as it only adds complexity.
You may wish to have a read of Switch 101 to give you an intro to the world of Tiger.
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