Lisa 2 Keyboard/Mouse substitute?

From: Corda Albert J DLVA <CordaAJ_at_nswc.navy.mil>
Date: Mon Nov 6 15:33:14 2000

I happened across a Lisa 2 (Model A6SB100)
this past weekend...Seems to be in fair
(restorable) shape. The nicads on the
I/O board are corroded, but that's easy
to fix. Unfortunately, the Keyboard
and mouse are missing.

Does anyone know if I can substitute
a keyboard and mouse from an early Mac?
(the ones with the non-adb keyboards
and db9-connector mice). I don't mind
hacking the connectors, if someone can
give me the pinout info. As far as I
can tell, the lisa uses some sort of
mini-db9 for the mouse, and a 1/4"
headphone-jack for the keyboard (weird!)

If this isn't possible, I'd appreciate
any hints as to where I might find a
lisa keyboard/mouse (be nice now! :-)

This critter also came with an Apple Profile
(model A9M0005) external hard disk that
seems to attach via a db-25 cable (to
the lisa's parallel port?) I noticed
that one of the pins on the lisa's
parallel port connector(db-25 female)is
blocked with epoxy (probably to prevent
people from connecting a serial cable
to it). Can I simply use a straight-through
db25 cable (with the blocked pin removed)
to connect the profile to the lisa, or
did apple use some sort of proprietary
wiring scheme?

-Thanks!

-al
-acorda_at_1bigred.com
  
Received on Mon Nov 06 2000 - 15:33:14 GMT