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A bit more sleuthing... I did find two different part numbers -- unsure why these would be split for the Lisa 2, unless they are talking about the square pixel mod:


077-8043   A  Video Align Graticule, Lisa
077-8169   A  Video Align Graticule for Mac XL/Lisa 2.0

"Alignment Graticule" for the CRT?

I've been looking for the graticule  P/N 077-8043-A  aka  P/N 652-3520  for a long time and no sign of it yet.

If you want to make your own, my theory is that the outside dimensions of the 720 x 364 raster should be about 9.000" x 6.067" with each pixel being 0.0167"H x 0.0125"W

edit: had pixel HxW backwards

Do we know if anyone has scanned or photographed the "Alignment Graticule" for the CRT? I would guess this is a piece of transparent plastic with a crosshatch grid on it.  Part number is 077-8043-A...

Here's a unit from former Apple demo software developer Pete Burnight: https://www.applefritter.com/content/yet-another-twiggy-mac

It's going up for Auction at Bonhams later this month: https://www.bonhams.com/auction/29514/preview-lot/5918785/apple-twiggy-macintosh-prototype-used-in-the-development-of-demonstration-software-macintosh-personal-computer-apple-computers-inc-cupertino-ca-1983-with-5-14-inch-twiggy-disk-drive-with-corresponding-slot-in-front-panel/

Unknown whether it's working or not. I understand the Macintosh Twiggy drive has a slightly different pinout vs. Lisa's Twiggy drive. Still, I suspect it could be made to work if the right folks got their hands on it.

Power restored!

John is working through the backlog of emails.

BLU has no capability to do FTP or anything having to do with the internet
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You may be able to make use of your WiFi modem, provided that the Lisa and whatever serial program you're using on the modern PC can pretend there's just an ordinary wired cable connecting the two of them.

Although it isn't practical to add a networking stack to BLU, there might be less required to support some kind of xmodem via telnet function.

Searching for telnet xmodem, at https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3prwv3/xmodem_over_telnet_sort_of/ I see suggestions including c-kermit, screen, and syncterm.bbsdev.net

I'll try to obtain one of the WiFi modems and see if BLU will work with something like that.

No, BLU has no capability to do FTP or anything having to do with the internet: you need to attach an old-fashioned serial cable, correctly wired, between your Lisa and your modern computer, then use a program like HyperTerminal (Windows) or minicom (Linux) or ZTerm (Mac) to establish a serial connection to the Lisa over the serial cable.

To download your hard drive image over the serial cable, the serial program you use must support a file-transfer mechanism called XModem, and of the three programs I mentioned, I'm not sure HyperTerminal does. (The other two have it.)

You may be able to make use of your WiFi modem, provided that the Lisa and whatever serial program you're using on the modern PC can pretend there's just an ordinary wired cable connecting the two of them.

Welcome to the pre-Web home computer communication world of the 1980s!

I recently purchased a Serial WIFI modem and am able to use it with the Lisa - can BLU be used to dump to FTP instead of a PC?

The way I always do this is with BLU, and just dump the image to a PC over the serial port.

-J

Hmm - interesting - as I shared the guy I bought it from is the original owner - but again different applenet number - he was a developer and bought it to code for the mac.

Quote from: ChiTownMike on September 29, 2024, 11:50:20 pm

Hi

Line 172 in the spreadsheet is incorrect - I own A4283090 / Applenet 00106218 / Manuf - 4283 -

Ah cool. I snapped a photo of it when I was at the event.
This machine was owned by a the LisaList mailing list member circa 2010: https://lisalist2.com/lisalist1/0507.html

-J

It was the original Lisa metallic emblem on the front next to the 3.5 drive.

Quote from: ChiTownMike on September 29, 2024, 11:50:20 pm

This is an 2/10 machine with the original Lisa logo on the front.

Is it a bezel from MacEffects? I have seen their custom Lisa 2 bezel (featuring the original Lisa logo placement) in one of the proprietor's photos before.

Or does yours simply have a Lisa logo attached?