24 Nov
2001
24 Nov
'01
3:19 p.m.
On Sat, 2001-11-24 at 21:15, Jeff Hellige wrote:
The system bears the following numbers under the screen:
A6S0200
A6S0204
I can't read the labels above the numbers because the machine is on a
bottom shelf, and I'm recovering from a broken arm =). It's equipped
with a parallel port (?) addon-card and is accompanied by 2 ProFile
external drives which I haven't tested. It also has an internal 10MB
(?) Widget drive and a floppy drive, and no parallel ports on the
motherboard. There is also another add-in card in the card cage which
appears to be a SCSI card, as well as 2 memory boards which I beleive
are 512K each. The system also has what appears to be an aftermarket
'glarescreen' installed. I haven't had time to play with the machine
much yet, but it _appears_ to be functional with the exception of the
mouse.
Jeffrey H. Ingber (jhingber _at_ ix.netcom.com)
I have what I
beleive to be a Mac XL. It might be a Lisa II, but I'm
not sure what the differences are. The system works well enough to
Does yours have an external parallel connector or an internal
hard disk or possibly both? I'm pretty sure all Mac XL's lack the
external parallel connector, unless there's an expansion card fitted
for use with the Profile drive, and that it would be like a Lisa 2/10
and have an internal hard disk. Mine's an earlier Lisa 2 with the external parallel connector, the LisaLite card for
interfacing the
floppy drive, and the I/O board with the batteries (though I've
removed mine). Mine has also been fairly heavily modified, with the
addition of the XL Screenkit, 800k floppy ROM and drive (which has
since been replaced with 400k ROM and drive combo), SCSI card/drive
expansion card, and an internal hard disk mounted just above the
floppy. All mods courtesy of Sun Remarketing.
power on and boot into MacWorks - but the mouse
doesn't register button
clicks (the mouse is good, and tested with an older Mac). The mouse I
have has a more 'square' mouse button as opposed to the long, thin
'rectanguar' mouse button sometimes seen with these machines: The mouse
is marked:
M0100
*G442MO10006348*
Standard Mac 128k/Plus mouse. The main variation would be
whether it was beige or 'platinum' colored.
Also, the mouse connector on the motherboard
doesn't mate well with the
mouse I have. There are no 'receptacles' to catch the thumbscrews on
the mouse, and there ins't the ususal metal 'band' around the D-Sub
connector on the motherboard. It's either not supposed to be there, or
it acts as a ground and is missing. I suspect this why the mouse
doesn't register button clicks but I'm not sure.
The original Lisa mice seem to have had an oddball clip
connector. I've not actually seen one though, as I use a Mac Plus
mouse with mine and my Lisa has the more standard D-sub connector
with the screw stanchions. On one of my tests, I didn't have my
mouse mated squarely and it wouldn't move the cursor up or down on
the screen though it would move it sideways. Tightening the
right-most screw on the connector solved this problem.
Jeff
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