Re: Lisa Easter Eggs?

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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