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Another Prototype Lisa Card
rayarachelian:
--- Quote from: blusnowkitty on June 23, 2020, 03:38:46 pm ---Here's some more interesting stuff that seller has put up...
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This is sad. This stuff should go directly to bitsavers where it can be properly imaged/scanned in. I don't have $3K burning a hole in my pocket to buy these and donate them.
sigma7:
--- Quote ---But I think the most interesting listing is this one: RARE-VINTAGE-APPLE-COMPUTERS-INTERNAL-ENGINEERING-LOT-LISA-TWIGGY-TEST-5-25
- it's mostly Apple II and III disks, but there seem to be a number of Lisa test applications on cassette tape! Anyone ever heard of a Lisa with a cassette tape drive, or perhaps the Lisa originally started life in the Apple II?
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Decades ago I purchased a Lisa I/O Port Test Card with ROM from eBay. IIRC, when I disassembled the ROM, it was purely a loader to load test code from an external computer (via a parallel port I think). Contemporary documents/rumours indicated that for manufacturing test and burn-in, Apple /// computers were used to test the Lisas.
So my theory is that the tapes are for the Apple ///'s (and/or ]['s) that were connected to the Lisa's with Test Cards.
edit: updated name of the card
Lisa2:
My guess is that the cassette tapes are for a FLUKE 9010A Micro-System Troubleshooter that Apple used in testing.
Something like this:
https://www.ebay.com/c/1601694360
compu_85:
I ended up getting the parallel port card... amazingly the seller took best offers.
I hope whoever gets the floppies is able to make images, and shares them with the rest of the class...
I was able to pick up the IO Port Test card too... which has its rom present. I'll back it up as soon as I can.
Do we know where the flying clip leads hook up?
I've been wanting one of the test cards for some time, and within a week I've gotten two of them :o
The seller also had a loopback plug for the serial ports. That's still in the mail, I'll post pictures once it arrives. This was the listing: https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-APPLE-COMPUTERS-1982-SERIAL-PORT-TEST-CARD-SK1406-00-APPLE-ENGINEER/293628746220
High res picture of the cards: https://i.imgur.com/LYntDsn.jpg
stepleton:
The DMA test card is with me here in the UK. I will desolder and image the ROM at some point.
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