Re: Lisa Office System images to floppy via PC?

NateSpin wrote:
> It's Alive!
>
>

Congrats! :-)
> Ok, so over the last few weeks I managed to get a bit of ageing mac
> hardware. I picked up a Power Macinosh 7200/75 w/out a keyboard,
> mouse or monitor. Later I found a Apple Multiscan 15AV display and a
> keyboard and mouse. Though in order to get the keyboard, mouse and
> screen I had to pick up Macintosh Quadra 950 (w/ 128 MB RAM), a HP
> ScanJet 4C Scanner and a bunch of parts which include a Quadra 900 and
> a 950 motherboard. So my once 1/2 empty office is now getting quite
> crowded.
>
>

Hang on to the Quadra's - you might find yourself wanting to run A/UX, those will do that.
> When I installed the LOS, it asked me if I wanted to partition the HD
> for MacXL, so I split the drive in 1/2. Is there a 20MB widget HD???
>

Nope, just 10MB.
> As, I gave 10 to LOS and 10 for MacXL, maybe the numbers weren't in
> MB. After installing all the apps, if I look at the attributes for
> the "Internal Hard Disk" it says the "Total Blocks : 9418".
>
>

The blocks are 512 bytes each, so you gave each 5MB.
> I also plugged in my external Profile HD. It appears to be recognized
> by LOS as it shows up as a "disk" with "Total blocks: 9690", but it
> can also be booted from into Lisa Workshop. Is it partitioned into
> 2???
>

Yeah, that's a 5MB ProFile.
> Anyways, all is well in Lisa land except 2 things. I have been trying
> to download MacWorksXL3.0 and MacWorksXL3.0 System Disk from The
> Mothership, and though I can download them fine on my 7200, Stuffit
> always reports that the headers are corrupt and then locks up the 7200
> when trying to extract them. Anybody experienced problems with these
> images???
>
>

I've seen bad disk images all over. I don't recall if those are specifically good or bad. So you'll have to dig a bit. Keep in mind you need two disks, so it's possible to have just one bad out of the pair. There's a "Boot" disk which is MacWorks itself, and a System Disk which is really a version of the Macintosh System disk. (Since I wrote LisaEm, legally, it's much worse for me than someone else, if I tell you where to get a copy of MacWorks, so I'll have to keep quiet about that. :-)

> The 2nd issue I have remaining is repairing my Lisa's keyboard. As
> is, I have to opperate the keyboard with the keys off. If I use my
> fingers directly on the contacts, everything works fine, but 1/2 the
> foam behind the keys is defunct and need to be replace.
>
>

That's not too hard. You can easily replace the foam with double sided foam tape. If the mylar like disks are broken, it's a bit harder, but you can cut out equivalent sized disks from aluminum foil as long as you cover it in tape (I used Scotch tape - first tape both sides of a square of aluminum foil, then find a similar sized diameter cylinder for an outline and cut a round out for each broken key.) It's vital that you don't let aluminum touch the key pads as it will short out and damage the keyboard!

This will help: http://lisafaq.sunder.net/lisafaq-hw-kb_repair.html Received on 2008-01-22 06:24:58