LisaList2
General Category => LisaList2 => Topic started by: blusnowkitty on November 15, 2020, 08:58:08 pm
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Curiosity question here - Saw this 2/5 on eBay today and am wondering what's up with the motherboard? https://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-Lisa-2-for-Parts-or-Repair-SCREEN-TURNS-ON-read-description/393017216720
Specifically, the port label - anyone know when those icons were introduced? Looks like the 2/10 had them; perhaps it was a transitional thing from the /5 to the /10? These pictures of a 1 don't seem to include the port icons, and my 2/5 is similarly text-only. http://www.macgeek.org/museum/applelisa1/
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Yup, this started with the 2/10. Likely so it matches the Mac 128 port icons:
(http://facstaff.cbu.edu/~cyelving/128Ports.jpg)
(from http://facstaff.cbu.edu/~cyelving/Mac128.html (http://facstaff.cbu.edu/~cyelving/Mac128.html) )
I'd guess this was done to a) stick with the graphical/icon theme, and b) English only text wouldn't go as well in the non-English speaking world.
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Wild guess: Non-US Lisas had keyboards with international symbols on various keys instead of "Return", "Clear", "Shift" and so on. Maybe these labels with symbols were originally for non-US machines?
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This is kind of interesting, I have four Lisa 2/5 card cages and three of them have text only descriptions for the ports, and one has both text and icon's like the one in the eBay listing. At first I thought maybe that early systems may have been text only ( identified by having a Lisa mouse port with clips and not screws ), but of my boards the one with the Lisa mouse port also has the icons. ::) This system came from Sun Remarking and they mixed and matched a lot of components, so I don't know if this was originally from a international system.
On the lower corners of this sticker there are some part numbers, I will dig a little deeper and see if they indicate some sort of revision level.