26 Nov
2001
26 Nov
'01
7:22 a.m.
Hyya Chris,
the
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From: Mike [mailto:dogas@bellsouth.net]
finally being shuffled here. It was an
adventure over miles
with a car on
the verge of catrastrophe, filled to the brim. Anyway,
here's my recent
'new finds' list...
[snip]
Apple Lisa w/widget&software & Macintosh
Portable
Wonderful computers. I've been working on restoring one, myself. Need a
new cable for the internal HD (Or at least a new connector to plug into HD port)
Mine is a conglomeration of Mac XL (the newer model that wasn't compatible
with Lisa OS) and Lisa parts. I believe the Lisa IO board is toasted, so
that came from the XL (Which was functional but physically trashed)
I bought my first two Lisa 2 computers from Sun Remarketing a few years ago,
just the basic machines, but they both booted off a MacXL floppy also
supplied from Sun when I bought them. But I really wanted one with a HD and
some programming software (MacApp or Smalltalk) for it and eventually even
them both on a network doing something PARCish... I picked up Joe's Lisa
in a bunch of parts. He had dissassembled it down to the floppy bay and
power on/off switch but I did also get the internal tower with the widget
and floppy that I hope to migrate to one of my machines so I may need that
parallel cable I already gave Dave Greelesh the keyboard and mouse for his
Lisa. I did get alot of software for it that I haven't tried yet and maybe
an extra i/o board, lemme check...
Incidentally, please let me know if you find a way to
make a bootable
backup
of Lisa OS or Macworks. :) (Not that I'll be
backing Macworks up until I
fix
the internal drive cable)
[snip]
picked
AT&T UnixPC and hd drive and software
These are great. I picked up one of these from a university I used to
attend. It was about to get trashed, and somebody I knew at the time it up along with the seven or so others that were
going out of style.
Software and everything. I managed to get the SVR3.0 development kit
working with the R3.5 OS that I've got. It's pretty functional at this
point.
They are cool!. I've been playing around with it and having alota fun.
Its got the developer package installed (among others) and some funky phone
demon running but is a real nice environment with C and Curses. Enough to
make me happy.
Since then, I've located a brand new one at a
local computer store
(really),
and acquired that for my SO. We've even still got
the original box. :)
That's great! I akso found two 3b2's (a 400 and a 1000-80m) and a AT&T
terminal a while back too but haven't tried them yet.
She has since gotten some original manuals.
I also have a friend who picked one up a the scrap yard for near nothing.
...had a sign taped to it that says "will not play games, good for
programmers."
I think they were serious.
barbarians! ;)
[chop]
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl
Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
Cheers
- Mike