Hello TTG -

Before you read this, I know this is the PC section but there is no Macintosh section. So, moderators move this or delete it if this is really horrible or something. Also, I highly doubt anyone knows anything about old Macs on this forum, but it's worth a try anyway.

So,

I went to the dump today and found someone that had thrown away a 1993 Macintosh Color Classic in the original carrying case with the keyboard and mouse. I took it home, booted it, and get shown a little flashing diskette drive with a '?' on it. From my current, if any, Mac knowledge, this either means that there's no hard drive or there's no operating system on the hard drive. So, I cracked it open and there is a functioning hard drive inside it, so it must just be missing an operating system.

I did some handy-dandy research and found out that this runs System 7. My question is, first of all, where do I get a hold of this System 7? It's really old and the only 20 part files I've found require a version of Macintosh to already be installed.

Where can I get a fresh install of System 7 that I can put onto floppies to directly boot into? As I can't even get past the flashing diskette symbol, I need something I can directly boot into to install System 7 from. I don't care how many parts it is as long as it will work.

Thanks, and sorry for the oddball question, I'm not good with old Macs, especially those only equipped with a nice floppy diskette drive.

If someone can get me a direct link to stuff I can put on floppies it'd be much appreciated.

Cheers and +REP to anyone who can help me out.