equill, you have popped up yet again with great advice from the other side of the world!
I did more research last night while waiting to see what would show up in here, and found something interesting:
The Apple specs for the 5500 say no 7.6, but a chart of what models use what flavours of System 7 shows the 5500 as being able to use 7.6! Oddly, 7.6.1 is not listed on this chart, making me wonder if it was originally supposed to be able to use 7.6, but then at the last minute, something went wrong...
Anyway, I did find a cheap copy of a full, sealed 7.6.1 CD on eBay, and bought that, so I won't have to go through all kinds of shenanigans to bet it installed.
I still wonder, though, why a 5500 is able to run 7.5.5, but not its successor? (Then again, I haven't tried 7.5.5 on it, so maybe that info is wrong too!)
Bill
I did more research last night while waiting to see what would show up in here, and found something interesting:
The Apple specs for the 5500 say no 7.6, but a chart of what models use what flavours of System 7 shows the 5500 as being able to use 7.6! Oddly, 7.6.1 is not listed on this chart, making me wonder if it was originally supposed to be able to use 7.6, but then at the last minute, something went wrong...
Anyway, I did find a cheap copy of a full, sealed 7.6.1 CD on eBay, and bought that, so I won't have to go through all kinds of shenanigans to bet it installed.
I still wonder, though, why a 5500 is able to run 7.5.5, but not its successor? (Then again, I haven't tried 7.5.5 on it, so maybe that info is wrong too!)
Bill