Help with Apple Lisa 2

From: starling_at_umr.edu <(starling_at_umr.edu)>
Date: Wed Jul 2 01:04:39 1997

> Wow, LISA! It's a relic nonelessness but to amire at. :) This is
> kinda of a abortive experiment with "Mac" stuff then Mac became
> closed up and popular next year. Also very rare too! Thank yourself
> for not getting Lisa 1 type...it used 5.25" duo disk. Gah! Dual
> head cutouts not one like those 360/1.22 disks.

Yes, the 5.25" ``Twiggy disk'' models are much more of a pain in the ass
to get running, but I'd gladly trade my 2/5 for a Lisa 1 any day.
They're ultimo rare! If nothing else, I could figure out how to make my
own twiggies out of 1.2M 5.25"s probably... (I think twiggies stored
around a meg of data, I think)


> Okie, Lisa 2/10 and Lisa XL is no different in hardware but used
> different operating system.

*BEEP* Wrong. Sorry... :)

The Mac XL (And other Macintoshes) has a different resolution on the
monitor than a True Lisa. When one runs MacWorks on a True Lisa, the
screen looks kind of fat. When one runs MacWorks XL on a Mac XL, it looks
like a Macintosh. Plus, most (if not all) Mac XLs have a 800k floppy
instead of the Lisa-Stock 400k.

The fact that the poor thing boots to a Sun Remarketing logo, leads me to
believe that it may have indeed been bastardized by those butchers at Sun
Rem.


> The Lisa 2/10 is very desireable to upgrade to scsi capable, expand
> the screen image to bigger screen and 800k upgrade with ROM added
> and with new Mac system software and MacWorks Plus. There is
> hardware hack to add more addressing lines to break the 2mb limit to
> 4mb.

Yes, but then you wouldn't have a Lisa.... Part of the fun of owning a
Lisa is USING it as one.


I can't remember the exact symptoms Kai's Lisa was having, but it might
be possible that his floppy drive is kaput. The "Lisa Lite" floppy
controller card is notoriously flakey. My 2/5 blew her 3rd one recently
and I'm in the market for one... (hint, hint... :)

starling
Received on Wed Jul 02 1997 - 01:04:39 BST