If I remember correctly, the PRAM battery for that machine is a square, quite expensive one. In the distant past I have made up a battery with three AAA cells rewired to the original wire. Alternatively you should be able to get an early iMac which will run sweetly on OS 9.

regards

Kevin


Hi Bill,

I had one of those machines and I found that if the PRAM battery died the machine would not start, so its worth putting in a new one to be sure.


Regards,

Adrian
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On 18/01/2011, at 1:04 PM, Bill Parker wrote:


 Folks,


I have an ancient 7220/200 attached to a bit lab equipment at UWA. It's "dead". We think this might have had something to do with a power surge then outage over Xmas.


We could change to a more recent machine, but it must be capable of running OS9.

Could this be a dead PRAM battery? If co, any ideas on where to get one appreciated.

 Bill



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