On Sat, 2001-11-24 at 21:15, Jeff Hellige wrote:
> >I have what I beleive to be a Mac XL. It might be a Lisa II, but I'm
> >not sure what the differences are. The system works well enough to
>
> Does yours have an external parallel connector or an internal
> hard disk or possibly both? I'm pretty sure all Mac XL's lack the
> external parallel connector, unless there's an expansion card fitted
> for use with the Profile drive, and that it would be like a Lisa 2/10
> and have an internal hard disk. Mine's an earlier Lisa 2 with the
The system bears the following numbers under the screen:
A6S0200
A6S0204
I can't read the labels above the numbers because the machine is on a
bottom shelf, and I'm recovering from a broken arm =). It's equipped
with a parallel port (?) addon-card and is accompanied by 2 ProFile
external drives which I haven't tested. It also has an internal 10MB
(?) Widget drive and a floppy drive, and no parallel ports on the
motherboard. There is also another add-in card in the card cage which
appears to be a SCSI card, as well as 2 memory boards which I beleive
are 512K each. The system also has what appears to be an aftermarket
'glarescreen' installed. I haven't had time to play with the machine
much yet, but it _appears_ to be functional with the exception of the
mouse.
Jeffrey H. Ingber (jhingber _at_ ix.netcom.com)
> external parallel connector, the LisaLite card for interfacing the
> floppy drive, and the I/O board with the batteries (though I've
> removed mine). Mine has also been fairly heavily modified, with the
> addition of the XL Screenkit, 800k floppy ROM and drive (which has
> since been replaced with 400k ROM and drive combo), SCSI card/drive
> expansion card, and an internal hard disk mounted just above the
> floppy. All mods courtesy of Sun Remarketing.
>
> >power on and boot into MacWorks - but the mouse doesn't register button
> >clicks (the mouse is good, and tested with an older Mac). The mouse I
> >have has a more 'square' mouse button as opposed to the long, thin
> >'rectanguar' mouse button sometimes seen with these machines: The mouse
> >is marked:
> >
> >M0100
> >*G442MO10006348*
>
> Standard Mac 128k/Plus mouse. The main variation would be
> whether it was beige or 'platinum' colored.
>
> >Also, the mouse connector on the motherboard doesn't mate well with the
> >mouse I have. There are no 'receptacles' to catch the thumbscrews on
> >the mouse, and there ins't the ususal metal 'band' around the D-Sub
> >connector on the motherboard. It's either not supposed to be there, or
> >it acts as a ground and is missing. I suspect this why the mouse
> >doesn't register button clicks but I'm not sure.
>
> The original Lisa mice seem to have had an oddball clip
> connector. I've not actually seen one though, as I use a Mac Plus
> mouse with mine and my Lisa has the more standard D-sub connector
> with the screw stanchions. On one of my tests, I didn't have my
> mouse mated squarely and it wouldn't move the cursor up or down on
> the screen though it would move it sideways. Tightening the
> right-most screw on the connector solved this problem.
>
> Jeff
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