Success!
It turns out that the problem was two-fold: first was the PRAM battery, second was a SCSI conflict. Both are two really newbie mistakes which shouldn't have taken 5 months to diagnose, but oh well...
Anyway, the SCSI conflict was between the internal CD-ROM drive and the HD. I've disconnected the CD for the time being, and the 9500 boots up just OK. I backed up the hard drive (which had System 7.6 and from the looks of the Sharing Setup control panel appeared to have come from an LC III belonging to one 'wthww') to a Zip disk, wiped it (the HD) and installed System 7.5.3 from the 9500 Series Apple Macintosh CD. Total RAM is 112 MB.
This thing is a beast. I wasted about 3 hours playing Sim City 2000 on it yesterday.
It turns out that the problem was two-fold: first was the PRAM battery, second was a SCSI conflict. Both are two really newbie mistakes which shouldn't have taken 5 months to diagnose, but oh well...
Anyway, the SCSI conflict was between the internal CD-ROM drive and the HD. I've disconnected the CD for the time being, and the 9500 boots up just OK. I backed up the hard drive (which had System 7.6 and from the looks of the Sharing Setup control panel appeared to have come from an LC III belonging to one 'wthww') to a Zip disk, wiped it (the HD) and installed System 7.5.3 from the 9500 Series Apple Macintosh CD. Total RAM is 112 MB.
This thing is a beast. I wasted about 3 hours playing Sim City 2000 on it yesterday.