11 Nov
2003
11 Nov
'03
11:02 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Smith" <eric(a)brouhaha.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 6:47 PM
Subject: RE: Apple Lisa 1
"Fred Cisin" <cisin(a)xenosoft.com>
wrote:
If apple is anything like the companies I have worked at there is a complete
history in printout somewhere in a box in storage that nobody knows about or
wants to go dig for. Anything not currently in digital form on the network
is deemed not to exist, and considering the turnover in the decade that
followed the LISA 1 at apple I bet nobody there ever worked on a LISA let
alone knows where the rework figures are.
Can we assume that the ones that were
"upgraded" were treated to a well
supervised destruction? (or are they scattered in back corners of Apple
warehouses? :-)
The upgrade consisted of replacing the drive assembly, plastic front
bezel, boot EPROMs on the CPU board, and disk controller EPROM on the
I/O board. The upgrade kit was sold to dealers and fairly expensive,
but they got the entire price refunded when they returned the old
Twiggy drive assembly to Apple.
Apple destroyed the returned Twiggy drive assemblies.
Someone suggested that Apple knows how many machines were ugpraded.
Back in 1985 they undoubtedly did have this information, but today
there is basically zero chance that they still have it. Information
like that is not preserved very long.