Re: Lisa Easter Eggs?

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 disks
http://www.deschler-web.de/Bilder/Lisa/LisaDisketten.JPG http://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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