Apple Lisa...?

From: Starling <starling_at_umr.edu>
Date: Fri Apr 18 03:26:57 1997

I will soon be aquiring an Apple Lisa... whee!

So in the mean time, I'm trying to find out as much info about them as I
can. There are several greal Lisa web sites, but I still have some
unanswered questions.

- Does anyone here own one?

- Anyone know of any Lisa-specific mailing lists?

- Has the copy protection on original system disks and program disks ever
been cracked? (for those that don't know, the first time an original
disk is used in a Lisa, it apparantly stamps the disk with its serial
number, preventing other Lisae from using it).

- Are there any other "workshops" other than Pascal Workshop, Cobol
Workshop, and BASIC Workshop? A nice C Workshop would be handy, but the
language hadn't really fallen into general use by micro users at that
time.

- Was any 3rd party software ever released for the Lisa?

- Why did Apple decide NOT to put memory protection & preemptive
multitasking in the Mac when the Lisa had it?


I guess that's enough for now... :) If there actually are any Lisa
owners out there, I'll probably have plenty of questions for you once I get
the thing two weeks from now. Luckily, it comes with a complete Office
7/7 setup & a Profile drive, so the copy protection isn't a problem.

chris
Received on Fri Apr 18 1997 - 03:26:57 BST