Continued from powermac7500 [powermac7500, powermac7500-2]
This afternoon I went up to the garage and cleaned five years of garage crud off of the PowerMac 7500 [powermac7500, powermac7500-2] that's been sitting up there. Turns out that the big-ass monitor is actually a 21 inch Raster Ops Model 2168, circa 1992. It weighs nearly 70 pounds!
I popped the top on the PowerMac and discovered that it has actually been upgraded once before. There is an Apple 604 150Mhz upgrade card in the CPU slot, and the hard drive is a 1GB Quantum with the Apple logo (as opposed to the original 750MB drive according to the specs at apple-history.com). I didn't remove the drive bay to see how much RAM was in there, so I can only assume it too has been upgraded, maybe in the 32MB range. All three PCI slots are empty.
The Mac actually powers up and displays the 'Happy Mac', but then sits forever until it complains about a missing boot disk. Possibly a dead hard drive. Unless I find another drive at a surplus store or ebay for somewhere close to free, I probably won't spend much more time with this computer.
Funny thing I also noticed today: this company seems to be actually selling upgraded beige PowerMacs. Why on earth would somebody actually buy one?
