Re: Lisa Easter Eggs?

WOW! what do those disks do when you boot them , Tom?

On Mar 25, 8:13 pm, tommoni <tomm..._at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> you wrote: "...any old MacXL lisa2 systems you know of let me know!"
>
> Well, I have a pair of disks, which I got from a guy in developper  
> facility of a formerly huge tv-, radio- & computer-factory not far  
> away from my hometown in the end of the 80ies. I don't know, but  
> perhaps you have heard from Schneider Computers and Amstrad. They  
> manufactured plenty of electronical devices and I think they had a  
> joint-venture with Apple Computers, because they intended to develop  
> a sound-card for the Lisa.
> Unfortunately - but luckily for me - they shut the factory and the  
> whole develop-facility wasn't longer needed. They sold everything on  
> a saturday and I went there, just wanting to buy a desk, some chairs  
> and such stuff. Well, finally I arrived at home with a fully loaded  
> (slightly overloaded) VW-Bus, because you couldn't buy single  
> items... you have to buy the complete interieur of rooms. So there  
> was a huge plant (Ficus elastica) several Lisas, plenty of software,  
> also a desk and 6 chairs and a board in "my" room.
> When I tried to store all the stuff into my car, a guy watched me  
> half an hour, finally came over to me and said with small tears in  
> his eyes: "Son, you bought the place, where I worked! Perhaps you'll  
> need that, too.", and gave me the box with that disks.
>
> Month's later I fired up one of the Lisas and it booted with those  
> two diskshttp://www.deschler-web.de/Bilder/Lisa/LisaDisketten.JPGhttp://www.deschler-web.de/Bilder/Lisa/Diskette.JPG
>
> greetings TOM from Bavaria, the center of europe, the marvellous  
> castles of Koenig Ludwig e.g. Neuschwanstein and last but not least  
> the original Oktoberfest !
>
> Am 25.03.2010 um 00:28 schrieb barana:
>
>
>
> > haha {wave} From another Retrocomputist from the sunshine coast,
> > Queensland!
>
> > Yes I am Very interested in the LPW C compiler too - I have a few
> > projects I'd like to do on LisaOS
> > Oh and of Course any old MacXL lisa2 systems you know of let me know!
>
> > On Mar 25, 9:16 am, Nigel Williams <nigel.d.willi..._at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
> >> On Mar 25, 2:01 am, Ray Arachelian <r..._at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
>
> >>> There are a few retromac collectors in .au.  Checkout
> >>> retromaccast.ning.com and ask around, you never known.
>
> >> A wave from me too (hi Ray!) in Tasmania.
>
> >> My Lisa XL is still in pieces while I replace the keyboard foam...and
> >> the hard drive is flakey.
>
> >> BTW: If anyone comes across the BETA release of the Apple Lisa C
> >> compiler please let us all know.
> >> The beta release was significant since it still supported compiling
> >> applications targeting the Lisa, unlike the final release which was a
> >> cross-compiler targeting only the Macintosh.
>
> >> cheers,
> >> nigel.www.retroComputingTasmania.com
>
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