[rescue] Maybe Wanted: Early PowerPC Macintosh Systems

[Don McClure]

on 4/20/02 10:35 PM, Joshua Johnston at flagg at midmaine.com wrote:

> Heya, folks.  I know there are a lot of standard collect-everything
> sorts out here, so I thought I'd toss out a line about this.  One of the
> maintenance guys at the school I go to asked me to look over a Performa
> 6400 with a 180Mhz PPC processor to see if I could ready it for his
> daughter.  Unfortunately, the day after I booted it up to inspect, the
> damn thing -died-.  Won't even seem to take power from the plug anymore,
> let alone start up.  I feel like crap about this, but really can't
> afford to invest much in it to fix it.  Does anyone have anything like
> this that they might be willing to part with cheap? My conscience is
> nailing me over this, even though I know I didn't do anything to kill
> it.
> 
> 
> 
> I am never going to do 'favor' work again. :/
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Some Macs won't boot if the pram battery is bad. Try checking that out.

Don McClure
Bel Air, MD