Mac Clone Experiment #5

My Mac Clone got here. Cool. Remember, I am doing my Mac Clone Experiment as though I was a total n00b. My interest is in how Ma & Pa will deal with this new machine. Comments always welcome, but keep in mind who I am doing this for.
The box. Upon opening, the Mac Clone was not wrapped in plastic. It was merely shoved into peanuts. Not my first choice. Then there was the anti-static bag. Nothing else. No instructions. Fair enough.

Inside the anti-static bag are a power cable, a VGA-DVI video adapter, a couple of drive ribbon cables and Intel and video card manuals and disks.

This reminds me of the days when we bought our machines from local PC shops or built our own. Lots of disks and manuals. I had a minor freak here… but reminded myself this is an Experiment.

My contribution, which is all I should need (theoretically) is a mouse & keyboard, wirelessly connected via USB, a generic 15” LCD monitor and OS X Leopard master disks. (Yes, Mr. Jobs, I am breaking the EULA. But it is a dumb EULA and besides, this is for Educational purposes only.) ☺

My problem for Ma & Pa is now… “What do I do? Where are the instructions? Where’s the keyboard? The mouse? Oh, dear, what do I do now?” And the Mac Clone sits idly by as a doorstop until a neighborhood teen shows up to help.
Technically we call this, “A Bad Thing.”
- No manual
- No “Here are the parts you should have”.
- No quick set up guide
- No slow set up guide.
- No nada.

Since I know what to do, it’s time to wire it up.

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