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General Category => LisaList2 => Topic started by: mactjaap on May 03, 2020, 07:35:50 am

Title: How to decode the serial number of a Lisa?
Post by: mactjaap on May 03, 2020, 07:35:50 am

I would like to know how to decode the serial number of a Lisa. And.is the Apple Net number also a kind of serail number?
My Lisa has serial: A3244754
A6S0300(P) memory A6S0304 | APPLENET 00103526 | MANUFACURED 3244


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Title: Re: How to decode the serial number of a Lisa?
Post by: rayarachelian on May 03, 2020, 11:42:23 am

There's code in LisaEm for this. Copy the serial number into LisaEm in the first page of the Preferences dialog, and there's an "info" button to get info about the serial number. There's also a PDF somewhere on the web from the DTC archives, but I can't seem to find it at the moment.

You'll have to format it in the way it shows up at memory locations 0x240 from service mode.

You can also look at the code here: https://github.com/rayarachelian/lisaem/blob/2c4276eae2051d533ddd0be0f8357bef923795e8/src/host/wxui/LisaConfigFrame.cpp#L175

to see how it's encoded.

I think I found it: ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/documentation/applelisa/AppleLisa%20-%20Good%20Things%20to%20Know.pdf
on the PDF document page 78.

It used to be searching for these things would just work, but I guess google and the other search engines don't care that much about the Lisa. Instead silly articles about Apple's greatest failures and stuff like that come up.

Title: Re: How to decode the serial number of a Lisa?
Post by: mactjaap on May 06, 2020, 06:52:31 pm

Thanks for the info. I will give it a try.  A very interesting document too!