[rescue] Maybe Wanted: Early PowerPC Macintosh Systems

[Mike Hebel]

GSM> Sounds like a dead battery to me. Power PC MACS won't start without a good
GSM> battery in them. I'm not familiar with the model you have, but if it uses
GSM> a 1/2 AA battery with a long nose, the photo battery equivalent (slightly 
GSM> longer, flat nose) works just as well and is about 1/2 the price (and
GSM> available almost everywhere).

BZZT!  The photo battery is 12V while the proper battery is less (6.5V
IIRC - I'll have to rummage for one around here).  If you put the photo
battery in there you'll most likely let the magic smoke out of the
PRAM circuits.  Besides, I think someone else mentioned that this
particular model used the square two-wire battery as a few odd models
are configured to do.

Mike Hebel                        mailto:nimitz at owc.net