General Category > Lisa Troubleshooting and Repair
Restoration of a Lisa 1
snuci:
--- Quote from: stepleton on May 02, 2020, 01:19:16 pm ---The disk image is a BLU disk image, and so the easiest way to write it to a disk (including your X/ProFile) will be with BLU over a serial cable. I am not sure, but you may need to modify the image in order to put it on an X/ProFile directly.
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Okay, I have a BLU disk and I need for reformat a Proile hard drive anyway. Let's see what I can figure out. I just have to relearn stuff I haven't done in a few years now :) BLU was a life saver back then.
Thanks Tom.
snuci:
I figured I would try a couple of Profiles to see what I had. This was in the lot with this Lisa 1 (it came with 2 Profiles). Oddly enough, this booted with Macworks + 1.0.1.8...
Clearly the Twiggy's won't work but that was wierd. I am looking at the other Profile to see if I can fix it. The stepper motor only moves a couple positions (it is free to move) and will not complete the self-test.
stepleton:
Ha, I've never tried that one before. You sure don't see that every day.
MacWorks is said to boot from the Monitor, a kind of Apple-internal operating system that didn't see general-purpose use, but that was also the OS underlying the LisaGuide tutorial disks. Once you make some Twiggy diskettes, you'll be able to boot the various Apple-internal Twiggy versions from Bitsavers for yourself. They're not much to look at, but they are historic, I suppose.
snuci:
The second Profile had a RIFA filter cap blow up so other than it stinking in here, I do have LOS 2.0 on my X/Profile already. Would that work with Twiggy's?
stepleton:
A very dim memory suggests maybe not? But it's probably worth a shot. I've never really used Office System 2.0.
One thing you could do is use BLU to backup one of your X/ProFile disks over the serial port, then upload my disk image via BLU onto that X/ProFile disk (overwriting what you've backed up), and finally, when you're done and you want to go back to the original setup, restore your backed-up disk image using BLU once more.
Commiseration about the RIFA---I know that stink---once it even inspired me to make a T-shirt...
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