I work for a school district and I recently found an old Mac SE/30. I turned it on, and to my surprise it actually has a hard drive in it (like my name implies, I am a newbie w/ macs... i don't use them). Only problem now is, after messing around with it for a short time, I left it on and went to do something else. When I came back there was a screensaver on. Herein lies the problem. THe screensaver is password protected, and even if I turn the computer off and back on again it comes up immediatly. This means that I'm effectivly locked out of the computer. The person who's computer this was no longer works here, so am I stuck, or is there a way to get around this? Thanks,

Try starting up the Mac with extensions off by hitting the power key then immediately holding down the shift key until you see the "Welcome to Macintosh... Extensions off" screen. This should keep the screen saver from loading at startup (as well as all the rest of the startup "inits"). If the screen saver is a control panel device like "After Dark," you can then open it up and remove the password protection or delete the control panel itself if you no longer need its functionality. Good luck with your SE-30, they were and are fine machines.

...and if you haven't found any of these sites yet, you're going to want to look them up. There's a lot of info out there re. classic Macs...software, etc. This is a google-generated collection of links. http://directory.google.com/Top/ Computers/Systems/Apple/Macintosh/ 68k/?tc=1