On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Witchy wrote:
> > I certainly believe this is the case. And I would imagine initial Lisa
> > sales (of the original machine) were well under 10,000 units. Perhaps as
> > low as 1,000 units.
>
> By now you'll have read the revised figures.....I'm still slapping myself ;)
No, I haven't. Where are they posted? I'm very curious.
> > I hope it is the PSU. I can't think of what else it might be. The weird
> > thing is that the power switch lamp comes on but nothing else does.
>
> Mine did that, and it gave out the requisite number of clicks to show all
> was OK, but it wasn't. The video board had died for some reason, and it
> wasn't until I got a replacement from John Woodall (lenny15 on ebay) that I
> got my machine working again. That was when I decided to get a full spares
> kit.....
Hmmm. Well, I have spares in the form of at least one Lisa 2. In fact, I
got this one working by swapping out the busboard and the I/O board from a
Lisa 2 (the batteries had leaked and corroded some components on the
original I/O board plus dripped into the connector socket for the I/O
board and damaged one of the pins). It's still at the Computer History
Museum and I won't be retrieving it until tomorrow, so I won't be able to
tell for sure until I get it back home and can start probing.
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