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Thanks to Chris, Paul & Roland again for their help, suggestions and
support. For a one-man band (me) the time you are spending on thinking and
typing is very much appreciated!

This morning I went and had a look in the Tech Info archive at www.apple.
Brilliant resource, and much clearer than the not with-it Apple UK support
guy yesterday. As suspected the fact that Quantum built the drive is
irrelevant.

Yup, the 8600/200 shipped with 7.5.5, sometimes (in the US at least) with a
voucher for an upgrade to 7.6.1. The 8600/200 does *not* run 7.6.

But it will run a system from the Zip, and as Chris suggested I could
create a universal system and either run from the Zip or copy it to the
8600's HD.

So....if I feel upto it and I have time (and a fresh mug of tea) I'll call
Apple and try to get them to send me a 7.6.1 (British) CD-ROM....

And...load a universal 7.6.1 onto a Zip disk, and try to run from that. If
that works I'll copy the system to the 8600 HD and give that a whirl.

I want to run the 8600 with 7.5.1 (cos I know it) and then wait until I've
got a quiet week before getting to grips with the upgrade and re-loads for
System 8.  (And then I can do it all over again to go to 8.1.... yipeeeee!)

Thanks everyone, I'll let you know.....


Hugh Browton