9 Feb
1998
9 Feb
'98
10:38 p.m.
I was just offered a Lisa 2/10, which I will happily
accept. I do have
the 2/5 but the second would be nice, albiet a tad greedy. :) However he
wants me to name my own price, and said that it wasn't working.
Apparantly the self test and stuff works, but it doesn't boot up - I
assume this to be a problem with the hard drive, but imagine that it
could be something else. Does the 2/10 have the battery problem found on
the 2/5, and is this particular error the sort of thing that can be
repaired given that it does start? I had imagined that a serious error
would not allow it to start at all. :) If it can't be easily fixed I'll
probably buy it anyway, but I don't want to offer too much (as I have
almost no money) but I definitly want to save it.
The non-working Widget (10MB drive) may or may not be a real problem.
According to Lary Pina's original book on Mac repair, there is a common
problem where the brake solenoid goes out of adjustment (listen for the
"snap" when the drive comes on), it is easily adjusted, however.
In the case of my own 2/10, however, one of the boards of the drive logic
(interface) failed. I figured this out by board swapping when I finally
got a working drive.
Personally, I'd offer $20 as a starting point. See where it goes from there...
<<<John>>>