Quote Originally Posted by YoshiM View Post
A co-worker of mine helps out with IT things and what not at a local church/parochial school. He texted me images of a Macintosh 512K, keyboard, mouse, external floppy drive, books/software along with a couple PowerBooks (145 and 180) and an Imagewriter printer. I've gotten into Macs over the last few years and there was just something about checking out the original that got me interested. The 512 worked but the PowerBooks not so much-both powered on but one only had the mouse cursor but wouldn't boot from the hard drive.
That is a really neat find. I just want to point out that even though the Mac 512K is working, you may still want to look into replacing some capacitors and the PRAM battery as they're known to leak and cause extensive damage to the internals, especially any RIFA capacitors. There's plenty of resources on this, including on youtube with posters like Adrian's Digital Basement repairing these computers regularly and in detail.