Faulty Apple Lisa 2/10 Drive - No longer an issue

Poor girls! Get them out into the light of day and let them see the sun (-: Mind you they are heavy and large, and it's no surprise that many people with Lisa's have them away in storage. Fixing and working with these Lisas have certainly given me an appreciation of them. I knew of their historical significance, but I didn't realise just how easy they were to disassemble and work on. Still a remenant of the Apple II open hardware ethos there. Very different from the later Macs where there was every discouragement to prevent you tinking with it. It's a pity that low-level format methodologies/hardware for the Widget drive (not the Profile) seem to be lost in time. I wonder how many non-working widgets around which require just this one step. I intend to do a final writeup with photos so I'll send a link through to the group when I'm done. Terry (Tez) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason T" <silent700 at gmail.com> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 2:33 PM Subject: Re: Faulty Apple Lisa 2/10 Drive - No longer an issue On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Terry Stewart <terry at webweavers.co.nz> > Congrats! You give inspiration to those of us with dusty, yellowed Lisas hidden away in the basement somewhere :)