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Another Prototype Lisa Card
Lisa2:
--- Quote from: blusnowkitty on June 23, 2020, 03:38:46 pm ---Here's some more interesting stuff that seller has put up...
Only known surviving copy of WidEx? https://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-VINTAGE-APPLE-COMPUTERS-WIDGET-STATUS-MONITOR-CARD-DISKETTE-LISA-1985/303595450646
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I currently have possession of the Apple /// Widget test disk (WidEx) and monitor card from this auction. The disk is good.
Rick
blusnowkitty:
It may not be Lisa WideX but the fact that any version of WideX survived is amazing!
patrick:
Oops -- I thougth this was already on bitsavers? I have uploaded my versions to the files section, https://lisalist2.com/index.php/topic,105.msg691.html#msg691. Apple /// WidEx provided the name for my UsbWidEx project http://john.ccac.rwth-aachen.de:8000/patrick/UsbWidEx.htm.
Your version seems to be three weeks younger than mine. Glad to see this!
BTW: I have never heard of a Lisa-based version of WidEx. Except for NeoWidEx https://github.com/stepleton/NeoWidEx of course :) . As far as I know Apple's Disk Group worked with Apple /// systems.
blusnowkitty:
--- Quote from: patrick on July 21, 2020, 01:17:06 pm ---BTW: I have never heard of a Lisa-based version of WidEx. Except for NeoWidEx https://github.com/stepleton/NeoWidEx of course :) . As far as I know Apple's Disk Group worked with Apple /// systems.
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I was under the impression there was a WideX for Lisa based on http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/apple/disk/widget/Widex_May84.pdf which admittedly, even that is based on the mentions of "pulldown menus" a couple times in the document.
stepleton:
Oh how fantastic to see all of this software and material emerge! Thanks to all of you for saving these items.
If these Widex copies become more available in a public place (since the LisaList2 files section requires a login), I'll update https://github.com/stepleton/NeoWidEx#other-notes , which says there aren't any "readily available" copies today. :)
Has anyone seen anything Applenet-related in this collection of auctioned materials? I am slowly beginning to investigate my Applenet cards again. It's probably an off-and-on thing, but it would be nice to have more hardware to make progress, particularly one of these hubs. I don't think it's very complicated inside.
@snuci, I am gradually building up some techniques for recovering data from mouldy Twiggy disks. If the condition of your own disks seems dubious, we can share what we know.
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