It does not boot. Caps ordered and I hope they take car of that issue.

While there is an FCC label, its not a valid Apple FCC#. Thats the only odd part. If it were a production unit they would have used proper FCC number. "BCG" is Apple Computer to the FCC. So the smaller sticker is legit in that sense. Its even printed on the special apple thick decal. But the number, or one even close to it, is not valid. Its the only grey area of the machine. So my only thought is that it was production and Apple was still waiting for FCC approval. User machines probably had no label at all. But units pulled for display needed something and they knew while they could not sell the display units, they could ship em out to resellers. But thats only a theory.

When I get it booted I will learn more, such as drive contents. If the drive works at all! I will do some data recovery too. I doubt any original data is left. the PRAM battery was dated 1996. So the machine saw service well past any showroom floor time.

Has anyone figured out how to date a logic board serial number?