Re: Problem with System 7.6 CD and 8600

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From: Chris Bennett
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 00:00

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Hugh Browton <ghb@clarity.co.uk> wrote:

> Spoke with Apple (32 mins, by no means a record!) "Ho, hmmmmmm, no idea
> what that could be, 7.6 should run fine on that machine, try this, try
> that, etc.  Aha! your internal drive, fresh from the Apple factory etc, is
> a QUANTUM drive (so Apple System Profiler tells us) so that's a third-party
> drive, you'll need a new driver from them!"

Apple really excelling themselves here :-(

> Ideas still welcome. I'll keep you posted.

Not exactly a solution, but if you have access to another Mac, you might
be able to create a universal system folder "for any Macintosh" which
could then be copied to the 8600.

Chris.

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