24 Nov
2001
24 Nov
'01
11:37 a.m.
Congrats.
I have my own Lisa problems that you might be able to shed some light
on. It seems you've spend more time with the machine than I:
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
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*
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.
I'll relace the connector with a new one, but only if I'm sure this is
the problem.
Jeffrey H. Ingber (jhingber _at_ ix.netcom.com)
On Sat, 2001-11-24 at 20:16, Jeff Hellige wrote:
Well after working on it off and on for over two
years I
finally got my Lisa to actually boot up tonight. I've been trying to
put it back to Lisa2 specs vice Mac XL and I had swapped a 400k
floppy back into it in place of the 800k upgrade that had been
peformed. Unfortunately the machine would never power on properly
without the XL screenkit installed. Finally tonight I said the heck
with it and reinstalled all the parts to the XL screenkit and powered
it on, attempting to boot from Macworks XL 3.0 and the Macworks
System Disk (Mac Finder 4.1). It worked! Both disks were 400k disks
and made from images gotten off of the web. I'm tempted to put the
SCSI card/drive back into it and see what I can do with it, though
it'd be nice to still figure out what's going on with the
original-style CPU card and video system and get it working as a Lisa
again.
Jeff
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