Lisa mystery switch

From: Louis Schulman <louiss_at_gate.net>
Date: Sat Nov 4 18:10:56 2000

Well, I have to admit, these answers have been pretty
funny. I kinda like the idea of ripping the switch out, to
see if a note is attached.

But seriously, this could very well be a device sold for
the Lisa called the "ROM Switcher". Because Lisas used a
number and shape of pixels in the video display different
from the Mac, a kit was made available by Apple to adjust
the screeen to the Mac standard. This involves new ROMs.
However, with this kit installed, a Lisa can't run Lisa
software (a Lisa without the kit CAN run Mac software, the
video is just somewhat distorted).

The ROM Switcher uses both sets of ROMs, and allows you to
toggle the video mode back and forth. It should not,
however, generate errors.

Possibly, this is a homebrew version of the ROM Switcher,
since the real one doesn't use wires hooked to the video
card.

Louis

On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 13:19:01 -0800 (PST), Fred Cisin
(XenoSoft) wrote:

>When you press the switch, does a little sign light up saying, "Please
>don't press the switch again"?
>
>
Received on Sat Nov 04 2000 - 18:10:56 GMT