Re: Lisa Easter Eggs?

From: gilles <gilles.fetis_at_email.domain.hidden>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 07:04:13 -0700 (PDT)

it seems an early macworks version.

On 25 mar, 14:16, barana <baran..._at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
> Would you be willing to image them with DART or something so I or
> someone else infinately more capable is/ are able to look and play
> with these, Prettty please?
>
> On Mar 25, 10:54 pm, tommoni <tomm..._at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I have to admit, I didn't take a look, what's exactly the disks content.
> > I only know, that the disk 2/2 is available on a Mac 68k Desktop and  
> > the Finder on it is about 80kB, dto. System and the total is  
> > roundabout 300 kB. The disk 1/2 isn't readable (it's only readable on  
> > Lisa 2 and Mac XL) and I didn't made efforts to put it into a  
> > swindler-computer ergh windows-computer to check what type of format  
> > it is and what's on it, because I don't own even one computer with  
> > Billy's OS, but I have over a 300 Macs...
>
> > ... and unfortunately less time
>
> > 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 13:02 schrieb barana:
>
> > > Does it have the C compiler on it?
>
> > > On Mar 25, 9:51 pm, barana <baran..._at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
> > >> 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.de...
>
> > >>> 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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