How can I know if an external drive has been used for Time Machine and what computer it came with too?

How can I know if an external drive has been used for Time Machine and what computer it came with too?

I have several laptops and iMacs. I spent the relocation of the year and only used the MacBook Pro.

Now I'm trying to figure out which drive goes with which computer

I connected just a disk seagate 1.5 t and the first thing he did was to ask if I wanted to use it as a Time Machine drive.

(1) if it is the TM disk accompanying this computer don't would not it have just started upward automatically?

(2) what happens if I would have said yes?

(3) I don't even know if it's been activated for TM. Is there a way to tell? It may hold just for iMovie files and other programs associated with a computer from my past.

All readers of backup Time Machine contains a folder named: Backups.backupdb. If you open this folder, you'll find another folder with the name of the computer that has been saved. If several computers have been saved on the same disk, you will have several folders.

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