Re: Lisa Easter Eggs?

Des Hay wrote:
> HI Ray,
>
> and everyone else,
>
> Just a little story, well a ramble, you may be interested
>
> I live in Tasmania, Australia, at the time about 1997 I was in high
> school, was into Apple computers at the time, had various models, Mac
> Classic, LCII, bought a 512k Mac, anyway...
> Saw the Triumph of the Nerds series on TV, got me hooked on the idea
> of owning a Lisa.
> At the same time, I did some work experience at the local Apple dealer
> in Tasmania, one of 2 in the state, talked to some of the tech guys
> there about Lisa's, they managed to look in their records, only 10
> Lisa's were ever sold here, new.

There are a few retromac collectors in .au. Checkout retromaccast.ning.com and ask around, you never known.

> The sad part of my Lisa adventures however, around the same time, I
> used to visit a local tip, to scrounge for old computers, bits, and
> lug them home on foot. You can just picture some poor kid hauling
> Commodore PET's with drives, NorthStar Horizons, big old heavy
> computers home on foot. and once there was a Lisa 1 there, sitting in
> the scrap yard, with a tin of house paint poured all over it, all over
> the screen, the drives, etc....they wanted.......$3 for it.
Hindsight and all that. Oh well, if you had bought it, it would have fetched ~$10K USD even 10 years ago.

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