LISA: Ah nuts...

From: R. Stricklin <red_at_bears.org>
Date: Thu Aug 13 02:30:40 1998

On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Wirehead Prime wrote:

> Also, I have a Profile harddisk that alledgedly goes with the unit.
> Without documentation, I see no place that indicates a hard disk should
> be connected there on the Lisa. But the Lisa has one parallel port and
> an expansion board with two more parallel ports. Does it connect to one
> of these? If so, what cable is appropriate? (No cable) And to what
> should it be connected?

I managed to pick up at a thrift today the Lisa 2 Owner's Guide and a
MacWrite/MacPaint boxed set. This last item is notable because in it,
along with all the retail pack MacWrite and MacPaint stuff I found a
shrinkwrapped MacWorks disk package and a receipt from Sun Remarketing for
a Mac XL ($995 + $3 shipping). Maybe the Lisa will show up tomorrow
morning, I must remember to stop by on my way to work. (:

Anyway: the picture in the back of the book shows the Lisa 2/5 with its
Profile disk stacked on top of the CPU and.. a DB25 ribbon. So it's
definitely straight-through. It is depicted connected to the internal
parallel port which the Lisa 2/10 lacks. (The manual states the 10 MB
widget drive plugs into an 'internal parallel port'.)

ok
r.
Received on Thu Aug 13 1998 - 02:30:40 BST