Oooooo, that's a pretty "About This Computer" box.
Clones were always fun to look at in MacMall magazines when I was a kid.

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Yeah, I remember paging through the catalogs of the big retailers. The Umax C500 ended up being in my price range when it was being blown out, so that's when I got one. I think the Umax machines were pretty sturdy, but the Power Computing ones I had where kinda flimsy.

That's one of the better clone ATM screens I've seen. In fact, I think it's the first one I've seen that actually changed the Mac OS 8 one. This was usually done by the Mac OS Licensing Extension. I've been mildly obsessed with clones for a while now, trying to gather info and install media. I haven't found any extensions that altered the Mac OS 8 ATM screen though. I have to ask, did you get any install media with the J710?

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The ATM screen is certainly unique.

It might be hard to understand for those who weren't there, seeing how Apple is a industry leading and financial power house today, but during the dark days of the MacOS, I always thought it was the cloners who were doing most of the leg work to keep the flame alive for us MacOS faithful. Specifically, the Power Computing ads really created a sense of unity and commitment when it looked like Apple was about to keel over.

Yes, my J710 came with a gold master CD-R. They never actually produced factory media, as the whole computer ended up being scrapped when Apple canceled the clone program. Well, cancelled them all except for this computer, but there wasn't much profit in this machine, so Umax gave up. I've posted an image of the CD-R at a couple private sites, but I could put it up again somewhere else if you haven't got it. The big load of stuff I gave to modplod had a hard drive that was pulled from a Motorola "Viper" CHRP machine. If you're interested, maybe I can borrow it back and try and make an image of it.