You don't see many of these around. It was a more MS-DOS compatible model,
with a larger screen than the Attache, that came out just before Otrona went
under.
So far, it's bid is under $40.
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1302397837
BTW, it's not my auction. I have an Attache 8:16, but I don't plan to bid on
the 2001.
Bob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Hellige [mailto:jhellige@earthlink.net]
> 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.
Tried that, myself -- just as a curiosity. As you said, it's kind of weird
in there.
I wonder, though, whether there's an easier way to do it. Maybe the HD
adaptors that came with the newer ones (for internal disks) were standard
enough to have something else plugged in. (haven't checked)
It would be interesting to have a Maxtor <whatever that model is that DEC
used for the RD54> in a Lisa. They were about 150 megabytes. Better if the
SCSI port actually could be used to boot the machine.
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
Is any one of you cpllectors interested in getting a sample of this
early '80s inkjet? A local thrift shop has one - unpriced, but I'd
think cheap - that I can pickup and ship on request. But, your request
better be quick as I will be away for a week starting Saturday.
- don
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(a)1bigred.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Quebbeman [mailto:dhquebbeman@theestopinalgroup.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 1:40 PM
> To: 'classiccmp(a)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
>
I have a complete PC-4 basic setup including the programmer's manual and the user's manual I even have the leatherette slipcase for the unit. I will try to get the manuals scanned and put on the web when I get the chance. http://agamemnon.unixboxen.net
> > Did Morrow make a hard disk controller? Who made controllers and
> > drives (if you could afford one) for these systems.
>
> Yes. Morrow made the Disk Jockey. I believe Tarbell also produced a hard
> drive controller. So did Godbout (CompuPro), and California Computer
> Systems. I know there are many I'm missing.
The Disk Jockey was the name of the floppy controller; it
may well have also been the name of the hard drive controller,
but I still have the photo and docs for the floppy controler...
-dq
Sellam Ismail <foo(a)siconic.com> wrote:
> Yes. Morrow made the Disk Jockey. I believe Tarbell also produced a hard
> drive controller. So did Godbout (CompuPro), and California Computer
> Systems. I know there are many I'm missing.
Morrow Disk Jockey controllers were floppy-disk controllers. I think
their ST-412 interface hard disk controller was called the HDC/DMA or
DMAHDC.
-Frank McConnell
> 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
same here, it was a badtrans.b in a file ending in .SCR
the winders virus propagation scritpting language.
Allison
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey S. Sharp <jss(a)subatomix.com>
To: Classic Computers Mailing List <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: Spam from _sring(a)uslink.net?
>On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>
>> Has anyone else gotten an audio file from S. Ring <_sring(a)uslink.net>
>> with an audio file attachment, bearing the subject of an old CC
>> message?
>
>It was not *really* an audio file, but yes, that happened to me.
>
>--
>Jeffrey S. Sharp
>jss(a)subatomix.com
>
Save for two things...
I could not even touch the mail file or Norton AV would scream virus.
Since I could not tiuch it there was no clue as to the content (save for
virus laden).
The machine at no time ever was infected but because of how lookoutdistress
works you cant delete an element of the ISAM file that has the offending
mail
message and norton was trying to do that.
After a day of win98se installing the sound hardware(board level disabled!)
that
I dont want but not the second parallel port I do want w9x is still guano!
Allison
-----Original Message-----
From: Curt Vendel <curt(a)atari-history.com>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 1:07 PM
Subject: Re: S. Ring has badtrans virus
>Yeah,
>
> I got it too, I never open anything unless I know who the person is and
>even then I always look at the attachment first before opening it. The
>file being a virus was pretty apparent when I saw the extension .doc.pif
>which is a fairly classic sign of some form of virus like the
Nimda/sadmind.
>
>
>Curt
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "John Lawson" <jpl15(a)panix.com>
>To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 9:53 AM
>Subject: Re: S. Ring has badtrans virus
>
>
>>
>>
>> It was sent to me 'personally', ie not as a classiccmp post. Since it
>> was an unsolicited attachment from an unacknowledged source, it filed it
>> in /dev/nul.
>>
>> just FYI if any listmembers get the thing...
>>
>>
>> Cheerz
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>
>
>
