The context,

I recently got a rather large lot of computers for $250, We originally went to pickup a Macintosh Colour Classic and maybe some cabes for $200, they go for $600 on ebay.com.au so I was pretty stoked. When we got to the property that we were picking these up from, we were informed that the original owner of the property worked on second hand computers, fixing them up to sell them. So we grab the stuff we actually went there to buy, alot of cables, A Macintosh Colour Classic, 3 classic mac keyboards, 1 classic mac mouse, 3 Atari 1040st’s, an Atari Mega 1, an Atari MegeFile and 2 matching monitors that likely go with the Ataris. We were told that there were probably games on the property, they just hadn’t been found yet.

The person we had been talking to then asked what I did at uni and why I was interested in computers, and after hearing that I’m studying engineering and computer science(could you tell?) they said, I’m going to grab you some tools and then I’ll show you around the place. They came out of the house with some genuinely useful tools in a show box, a wire stripper, soldering irons, solder suckers, a multimeter and a few more things that I have forgotten. Then they say, I’m going to show you around, if there is anything that catches your eye and you wanna take home, grab it, I’ll check to make sure it hasnt alreaddy been claimed and you can have it.
So anyway 2 hours later Dad and I leave with a car full of stuff that I probably didn’t need.

• Alot of Floppy disks, including software for the Macintosh.
• A SFF Dell pc that I only grabbed becuase it looks rather smart.
• 2 Core 2 Acer Veritions, that i only grabbed becuase I like the one I already have, even though its newer.
• A HP Prodesk 800 SFF(i think) with 16gbs of DDR4, a 2tb SSD and a 4tb hard drive
• 12 2tb Hardrives
• 2 Thinkpad x220i’s that i grabbed becuase they were on the table by the door, rather small and looked very nice.(every time i touch them the soft touch rubber coating leaves an unpleasant feeling substance on my hands) with one charger.
• An internel floppy drive in black
• An externel Zip 100 drive
• A Dell K17a Thunderbolt dock, with 3 display outputs.
• there is probably more that i have forgotten
• A Macbook Air 7,1 from 2015, with and intel i5 and 4gbs of ram and its charger
• A Apple Superdrive, which is something that I have wanted ever since I got one to work on linux at y124’s house.
  
  
  All for $250.
  I my head this will be an ongoing series that I will start going through and trying to get them all to work. In practice, its been 8 months or so since I last posted.

The Macbook

It takes me a day to get around to turning the Macbook on. After cleaning the macbook with windex, I plug it in and press the power button, eagerly awaitng the bong and thankfully it does bong. It boots incredibly quickly, which still surprises me, I am then greeted with login screen, with a user account named User and a password. All the other computers from this lot that I have powered on have a user account named jonathon(not really thats a placeholder) and no password, so I’m a bit worried. I jokingly tried password and it worked, So I then factory reset the mac it takes about an hour, and I then get greated with the same login sceen, a user account named User and a password. Turns out the defualt user and password are User and password. Thanks Apple.