Jeff,
The ST506 is a standard MFM drive, you can still find drives like the
ST225 to replace it, mind you its only 20MB's, not much, but it bets the 5MB
drive in the Profile. Interesting you mentioned the screen mod, I didn't
know about that, there used to be a guy in Queens, NY who dealt only in
Lisa/Mac XL's and I was given a Lisa 2/5 by a friend sometime in 88-89, it
had the 5.25" front plate but no drives inside and I had bought from this
guy in Queens a lot of the upgrades, but was never aware of a screen
upgrade, I always liked the bigger screen anyway.
Curt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Hellige" <jhellige_at_earthlink.net>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 5:07 AM
Subject: Re: Is it a Lisa or Mac XL?!
> >A lot of people confuse the hardware differences as coming about due to
the
> >renaming, but this was not the case. When Sun Remarketing in Logan, Utah
> >bought up the bulk of remaining "Mac XLs" from Apple they slowly began
> >tweaking them to make them more Mac-like. My first Lisa which I bought
from
> >them in December 1989 for $1095 had started life as a Lisa 2/5. Sun
> >Remarketing had installed the screen modification kit (giving it square
> >pixels like a Mac instead of it's native rectangular ones), Mac Plus 128k
> >ROMs to support the installed 800k drive and a Sun Remarketing installed
> >internal 20 mb hard drive. The hard drive was interesting because it was
> >installed internally, yet it's cable extended under the rear cage cover
to
> >attach to the external parallel port. Ok, ok, I go on and on. Interesting
> >stuff eh? Best,
>
> Thanks for taking the time to type all of that. Now if only
> someone would come up with a list cross-referencing the model#'s to
> the various machines. Mine is basically identical to the one you
> list above as the one you bought from Sun, including the wierd 20MB
> internal drive, plus the addition of the SCSI card.
>
> I took my Profile apart the other night and any hopes of
> swapping another drive in there were dashed since the ST506 has an
> Apple-specific board on it.
>
> Jeff
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Received on Wed Nov 28 2001 - 08:04:46 GMT