Is it a Lisa or Mac XL?!

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Wed Nov 28 15:11:40 2001

> On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Jeff Hellige wrote:
>
> > Just from looking at the one in the Profile, and not having
> > another 506 to directly compare it to, it looks like the Apple board
> > is being used in place of whatever circuit card it would normally
> > have. In fact, the interface to the drive is a single ribbon cable
> > coming in from the side vice the dual data/control cables normally
> > associated with the 506-type drives.
>
> Jeff, you are correct. For whatever reason that Apple had a habit of, the
> normal board was replaced by a custom Apple board. I doubt you could drop
> in a non-Apple replacement drive and have it work.

Perhaps he could pull that board from the Lisa drive and
slap it onto the generic version of the same drive?

Just a thought...

-dq
Received on Wed Nov 28 2001 - 15:11:40 GMT