Very nice find, and your post was almost like reading a story. :beige:

I will get a new pram battery off ebay along with .... Click to expand... (It's a backup battery, actually.) Now that it has booted, leave it plugged in, shut it down, then pl…

Tyan is known for crazy high end awesome workstation motherboards.Look here to see what I mean: http://www.tyan.com/product_board.aspx Click to expand... Ah, that may be what I'…

The Twin Turbo 128+ has 128MB of VRAM? :O But that thing was made back in the mid 1990's....i can only imagine how much that would have cost! (keeping in mind that I remember Dad…

I don't see a Tandy in the pictures, wonder what those disks went to.

Fantastic score! Compleat Guide to the Pismo

I'd say you should take the scanner because you can use it with said Power Macintosh 7600, and I think it'd be a nice accessory. Anyways, nice find!

Original 9600 CPU cards will only work in a 9600 or 8600. That said, any other PCI series daughterboard CPU will work in the 7600, including G3/G4 PCI series upgrades and dual 604…

A good idea would be trying one you absolutely know works on another system.

Tyan is known for crazy high end awesome workstation motherboards. Look here to see what I mean: http://www.tyan.com/product_board.aspx

O.OI see a tyan motherboard box! You must give us a model number!(if you took it) Click to expand... Unfortunately, I didn't yet.. I will when I go back! Something special abou…

. . . you be the judge! I was upset after finding out that a really nice USB KBD that I'd found and tested with HP_Mini at the Thrift where I liberated my 21” Graphics Series V…

Well the adapter worked before... Click to expand... Try multiple VGA monitors. Click to expand... I've tried it with two different monitors, and neither of them worked. On…

O.OI see a tyan motherboard box! You must give us a model number!(if you took it) Click to expand... Unfortunately, I didn't yet.. I will when I go back! Something special abou…

O.O I see a tyan motherboard box! You must give us a model number!(if you took it)

I don't envy you for having to take all those CRT displays, but other than that, fantastic score. The AIO Compaq and all the software, parts and accessories are particularly neat.

First a bit of back story - Skip ahead if you want to get to the goods I did some work for a local church years back involving restoring a few older computers (Pentium IIs and …

I used to use an alphasmart in like, 4th or 5th grade.

Awesome find! Yea I got two Pismos (since sold one) that were both DOA but I unplugged the PRAM battery and they work! The 500 mHz's are the best and harder to find, congrats!

You were right! I unplugged the pram battery and it booted right up!! It has 256mb of ram and is 500mhz!! The harddrive I put in is 20gb with O.S.9.2. I will get a new p…

Remove the PRAM battery. It may be too dead and will cause it to not boot. Just remove the keyboard and the CD/DVD drive and you will see it on the right hand side.

Just picked up a very nice looking pismo. The first one I have had! No hardrive. Plugged it in. Nothing. Checked and reset the ram, added a hardrive. Checked all the cables unde…

I don't think "HD 1080" and "G4" can be said in the same sentence; you basically need an Intel Mac to do this sort of stuff. Still, it makes for a wonderful server/general use mac…

IIRC, there was something funky about the video signal and PRAM batteries on the pizzaboxen. Search posts by Danamania and whatever other teems might be necessary to find the answe…

I used to use an AlphaSmart 3000 (translucent case, released around the same time as the iMac) in elementary and middle school, because of my poor ability to write. They are pretty…