Hello Jen,
Why don't you try to upgrade the computer to Mac OS 8.6?
We have about 12 of these machines here in the building running 8.6
without any problems.
Orlando
At 10:22 AM -0700 8/18/2000, Jennifer Gwirtz wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>I'm stuck...
>
>We have a visiting professor who has inherited a Performa 6115. I
>tried, misguidedly, to upgrade it to system 7.6.1, so that it can
>run a later version of Netscape (it had 1.1 on it, believe it or
>not,). There are no docs and no system disks available for this
>computer in our department.
>
>It went permanently off line, and nothing I can do changes that.
>(I've adjusted IP addresses, TCP-IP settings, ethernet, etc)
>
>I looked on the TIL and found out that it's possible that Open
>Transport 1.1.2 and later are NOT compatible with this strange,
>hybrid antique. On the other hand, there is very little mentioned on
>the TIL about this Performa family, as if Apple is denying its
>parentage.
>
>Does anyone know for sure about possible incompatibilities with Open
>Transport 1.1.2 and later?
>
>If I reinstalled the native 7.5, how recent could I go with
>Netscape? Eudora? Could I just drop the old Open Transport
>extensions into the 7.6.1 system folder?
>
>Does anyone have the system disks for a Performa 6115 that I could
>borrow for a few hours?
>
>Thanks so so much.
>Jen
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