Re: Lisa Easter Eggs?

From: barana <barana24_at_email.domain.hidden>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:32:13 -0700 (PDT)

So its MacIntosh os running natively on Lisa ?

On Mar 25, 10:13 pm, tommoni <tomm..._at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> they boot, what else?
>
> :-) Joke!
>
> Precisely: the first disk boots a shell and the second contains a  
> version of Mac OS
> If I remember right, it must be similar to Mac OS 0.7 or 1.0 or 1.1
> ... it has been a long time, since I booted my Lisas with those disks
>
> greetings: TOM from Bavaria, the center of europe, the country with  
> the marvellous castles of Koenig Ludwig, the alps and the original  
> Octoberfest in munich
>
> Am 25.03.2010 um 12:51 schrieb barana:
>
>
>
> > 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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