[rescue] Maybe Wanted: Early PowerPC Macintosh Systems

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

I wrote:
> 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).
>
Mike Hebel wrote: 
> 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.

No, there is a 3V lithium battery that fits in the socket the same as the
3 volt lithium battery on my first generation power macs. It's available
all over the place here for 20 NIS ($4) to 30 NIS ($6). The local Apple
parts distributer wants about $20 for the Apple part.

We're both thinking of different batteries.

Geoff.
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