That's yet another hitch: When I purchased the machine, the boot disk wasn't included because the operating system was on the hard drive. The machine was running OS 7.5.5.
What's the easiest/fastest way for me to obtain a boot disk?

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Check to see if there is an Apple support group locally, if so somebody probably collects old macs in it and could provide a set of boot disks.

You can doanload OS 6.08 and 7.01 from Apples website and if you have another mac around with a floppy drive dump them to disk. Basically you just want to make sure the machine will boot from floppy not run it from floppy long term.