> >I'm going to have to check mine now, since it was originally
> a stock Lisa 2
> >before I upgraded it to a 2/5 - it definitely has the drive
> access light
> >window, so maybe they were going to add in a LED on the floppy drive?
>
> The drive access light window is well above the floppy
> though, more inline with where the Widget drive is normally mounted.
> It would appear that they already had the 2/10 in the works when the
> 2 and 2/5 were released, using them as just a modified stopgap
> machine.
I always wondered why the 2 existed in the first place, since without a hard
drive and only .5mb of memory it was useless for anything other than
MacWorks.
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On December 12, Boatman on the River of Suck wrote:
> > Are you wanting this to go in big, hex-width cards like old UNIBUS cards,
> > or will you be defining a new form factor, connector (compact UNIBUS?),
> > backplane, and card mounting system for your new UNIBUS (UNewBUS?)?
>
> Old style.
Cool. Cards that you can actually FIT SOME COMPONENTS ON. What a
concept.
That's the only thing I don't like about sbus. You can fill up an
sbus card with three good-sized chips. Ridiculous.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL
> The earliest post of mine in there is from late 1994. To be fair, I wasn't
> around much earlier than that, but there are still gaps even after the
> Renaming.
*REplies* to my first posts are there, but not the posts themselves...
-dq
> On December 12, Dan Wright wrote:
> > I agree...it's a great print process. I think it has much nicer looking
> > output then color laser, personally...more photo-like with the glossiness
and
> > all :)
>
> It's targeted at an entirely different market than color lasers, so
> that's not really a valid comparison. But yes, the Phaser III output
> is *really* impressive.
And if you get hungry, it's the only printer on the market
with edible inks...
Plus, if you run out, all you have to do is run down to
WallyWorld and get a box of Crayolas...
Just kidding of course; we dumped a Phaser 550 that was
a toner-based laserprinter this year in favor of two
Phase 850s, which use the wax-based inks. The prints
do not fair well, however, in *any* form of currently
produced page protectors. Even those ones they came
out with for toner-prints don't work, the wax just
melts onto the plastic.
Perhaps glassine envelopes?
-dq
> Mine has the 'PTA Prototype' markings on the inside of the
> front cover as well. From talking with other's it would appear that
> those markings aren't uncommon. The thing I always found interesting
> was that even though earlier Lisa 2 and 2/5's weren't intended to use
> the internal Widget hard disk due to the lack of internal connector
> for it, the faceplate still has the drive access light window for it.
I'm going to have to check mine now, since it was originally a stock Lisa 2
before I upgraded it to a 2/5 - it definitely has the drive access light
window, so maybe they were going to add in a LED on the floppy drive?
cheers
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e: adrian.graham(a)corporatemicrosystems.com
w: www.corporatemicrosystems.com
w2: www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk (Online Computer Museum)
> > From: Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
>
> > I wouldn't want anybody smoking near my computers!
>
> I've been chain-smoking around computers of various sorts for 20 years, and
> I've never seen any evidence of smoke-related problems. I prefer that
> computers don't smoke around me, however ;>)
>
> OTOH, audio gear seems to be very susceptible to my smoke, and I have to
> clean all the switches and pots every three months or so.
The early CDC disk drives (like many others I'm sure) has so
much room between platters you could stick your hand in there,
and enough room between the flying heads and the platter that
neither smoke nor dust was a problem. One CDC engineer remarked
to me about how they usually be smoking a cigarette while they
were *polishing* the platters (yes, I know about the stiction
cure joke, Lemon Pledge and all that). Which reminds me of an
MPEG that Elsa included with the Winner3000 drivers... you
watch this video, you'll think it's cigarettes that they're
selling...
-dq
Please see this item and read the description:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1309308140
I have a similar machine which I would call identical except for the
green-screen. All the "prototype" markings that the auction makes
mention of I have seen seen on my Lisa, as well as the only other one
I've seen. I believe these markings to be common, and that the screen
was a replacement job by a 3rd party. Is this guy misinformed or am I?
Thanks,
Jeffrey H. Ingber (jhingber _at_ ix.netcom.com)
The subject says it all, does anyone have a handy list of HP-PB
adapters supported in the Nova series ? (I realize this might be
*just* short of the ten year rule). Looking to add some IO to
my H50.
btw. I love google. I love google. Google rocks. I'm busy
downloading every single message with a mention of 9000/500-series.
Did I mention that google rocks ?
Thanks,
--
jht
On December 13, Chad Fernandez wrote:
> I had a cat lick pictures once. They'll eat/chew on the darndest things
> if you let them. I think it is the taste..... something about the
> chemicals must be salty tasting or something. It's not like cats are
> chewy like dogs or rodents.
Did anyone beside me read this wrong and laugh hysterically?
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL
