Lisa 2 Keyboard/Mouse substitute?

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Mon Nov 6 18:24:30 2000

Hi,

  AFIK there is no substitute for the Lisa keyboard. However I'm told that
the mouse used on the early Macs will work on the Lisa. I think the plug on
the Lisa mouse has some plastic pins that are missing on the Mac mouse and
the plus has a slightly different shape.

      Joe

At 04:33 PM 11/6/00 -0500, you wrote:
>
>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 - 18:24:30 GMT