Can I load 7.5.5 onto a Lombard laptop?

#1 Mon, 13 Jul 2015 - 19:20

First, please let me know if I have posted to the correct forum. This laptop may not be a 68K compact Mac, but I am not sure. I am happy to move this to the a different forum if need be.

I see that the Lombard laptop came with OS 8.6 installed. Would I have any problems if I installed 7.5.3 or 7.5.5?

Also I see that it takes a ATA hard drive. Would this laptop take a solid state drive? If not, perhaps a CF card? I see the original drive was 6GBs.

I might be looking for one again. If you have one for sale, you can contact me off this public forum if you like.

Thanks

jack

#2 Mon, 13 Jul 2015 - 19:34

You should be in the PPC PowerBook & iBook forum.

Edit: Lombard is a G3, and 8.0 or up is best for G3s, though earlier ones might run OS 7.6. So, no.

Edit 2: 8.1 might run.

#3 Mon, 13 Jul 2015 - 20:00

Thank you. I will move this to the other forum.

Moderators: You may remove this from this forum. Sorry about the mistake.

jack

#4 Mon, 13 Jul 2015 - 20:14

I can not find a way to remove this off topic forum post. Can I do it my self?

jack

#5 Mon, 13 Jul 2015 - 20:40

You can always check this website for information like this: http://apple-history.com/

#6 Mon, 13 Jul 2015 - 21:35

The Lombard requires 8.6, but you might get 8.5 to run with some work (and possibly the Mac OS ROM file from 8.6).

As far as I know, 8.0/8.1 will not work. Nor will any version of System 7.

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