Roger Holmes wrote:
Was there ever any other interface cards which fitted
into the three
slots?
The Dual Parallel card is the most common one.
There was a quad port serial for use with Xenix
There was the SunRem SCSI card, which sometimes was attached to an
actual SCSI card (that would eat up two slots worth of space) but would
only work for Macworks
There was some sort of network card for it as well, but that never made
it, and yes, with MacWorks you can use LocalTalk on serial port B instead.
There may have been others. One guy has some strange 3 port Parallel
Card, but no drivers for it.
I suppose I might leave Mac OS on it and load up MacWrite and MacPlot
(which I wrote) or even an early MacDraft (for which we were European
distributors and which I still maintain). Maybe I will put Lisa OS on
the other Lisa when I retrieve it from my brother's shop where I had
it running stock control, reading from a bar code reader and
controlling a till (cash register) drawer and printing receipts to an
Apple dot matrix printer until the whole system was retired.
Incidentally it replaced an Apple /// doing the same job using a
floppy auto-changer with five 1.2MB floppy disks in it instead of a
hard drive. The bar code reader was a one bit input device originally
hooked up to an Apple ][ but re-connected to parallel cards on the ///
and then the Lisa and the device driver re-written.
You could always split the hard
drive in half and use the environments
window to switch between Lisa Office and MacWorks if you want both.
Did you write the bar code driver yourself? Was it for MacOS or Lisa
Office System?