Is it a Lisa or Mac XL?!

From: Corda Albert J DLVA <CordaAJ_at_nswc.navy.mil>
Date: Wed Nov 28 15:52:24 2001

Wow! We could finally claim that we are _real_ computer
archeologists... The kind that use a shovel and pick!

If we look hard enough, we might even find an SGI
Jurrasic Classic, or a Predator rack!


Sounds fun!

-al-
-acorda_at_1bigred.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Quebbeman [mailto:dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 1:40 PM
> To: 'classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org'
> Subject: RE: Is it a Lisa or Mac XL?!
>
>
> > I'll add that the Lisa 2 is actually an upgraded Lisa 1.
> When Apple's
> > Twiggy drives proved troublesome, Apple apparently offered
> an upgrade to
> > anyone with a Lisa to replace the Twiggy's with a Sony 3.5"
> drive. So you
> > got a new drive assembly and front panel, and returned the
> old ones.
> > Most people took advantage of this upgrade, which is why
> it's so hard to
> > find an original Lisa these days.
>
> It's time for a group of us to find the Utah landfill
> where they dumped the Lisa inventory 15 years ago...
>
> Since you can find undecayed hotdogs from the 1960s
> in a landfill, I'm thinking the Lisas should be well
> preserved...
>
> -dq
>
Received on Wed Nov 28 2001 - 15:52:24 GMT