27 Nov
2001
27 Nov
'01
8:07 p.m.
A lot of people confuse the hardware differences as
coming about due to the
renaming, but this was not the case. When Sun Remarketing in Logan, Utah
bought up the bulk of remaining "Mac XLs" from Apple they slowly began
tweaking them to make them more Mac-like. My first Lisa which I bought from
them in December 1989 for $1095 had started life as a Lisa 2/5. Sun
Remarketing had installed the screen modification kit (giving it square
pixels like a Mac instead of it's native rectangular ones), Mac Plus 128k
ROMs to support the installed 800k drive and a Sun Remarketing installed
internal 20 mb hard drive. The hard drive was interesting because it was
installed internally, yet it's cable extended under the rear cage cover to
attach to the external parallel port. Ok, ok, I go on and on. Interesting
stuff eh? Best,
Thanks for taking the time to type all of that. Now if only
someone would come up with a list cross-referencing the model#'s to
the various machines. Mine is basically identical to the one you
list above as the one you bought from Sun, including the wierd 20MB
internal drive, plus the addition of the SCSI card.
I took my Profile apart the other night and any hopes of
swapping another drive in there were dashed since the ST506 has an
Apple-specific board on it.
Jeff
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