Restore software for powermac 5500

I managed to come across a working powermac 5500 with the tv tuner and such. however, due to the unit coming from a school system, the software for the tv tuner and cd player have been removed. does anyone know of anywhere to purchase a restore cd (besides ebay...) or how i could go about wiping the drive and putting on a fresh install of os 8?
thanks

The various versions of Apple's Video, TV/Video, and TV/FM Systems are listed in this archived TIL article. Originally written in 1995, this article was updated in 2000, but the newer Power Macintosh 5500 and 6500 (circa 1997) models that should have been added to the list were overlooked. This TIL article is useful reading, if you run into problems with the TV tuner not being recognized. If the memory is maxed out at 128 MBs (5-volt, 168-pin EDO DRAM with 1K or 2K refresh rate), I'd recommend installing OS 8.5/8.5.1, which can be updated to OS 8.6 via download. OS 8.6 supports installation of a USB 1.1 PCI card, which provides a variety of printer options. If you merely want to use it for TV viewing, I'd recommend going with OS 8.1 and not 8.0, because OS 8.1 introduced support for "Mac OS Extended" (HFS+) formatting, which is a must if you end up installing a larger hard drive. For what it's worth, here's the complete "Apple TV/Video System" package listed at eBay.

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