Re: Newcomer to the Lisa Universe

Hi Mike and welcome to the list. Nice to meet another Lisa enthusiast!

I couldn't get my Widget going. It wasn't a brake issue with me. I think a re-format was in order and, when the information is out there regards the Profile drive, just how to do it for a Widget seems to have been lost in the annals of time.

Cheers

Terry
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From: "gubbish" <gubbish_at_email.domain.hidden> To: "LisaList" <lisalist_at_email.domain.hidden> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 12:38 PM
Subject: Newcomer to the Lisa Universe

> Hi all,
>
> Wanted to introduce myself to the group,
> I'm a computer hobbyist and tinkerer living in San Francisco.
> I recently came into posession of a Mac XL, which I've been enjoying
> for the past few weeks.
> I also got the original Lisa 2/10 ROMs and video rom from the original
> owner, and last night I was able to revert from XL back to Lisa 2/10
> by swapping the ROMs and removing the XL screen conversion
> transformer.
>
> This computer is in pretty good shape overall, very clean innards. I
> did have to swap the 400k drive for a Mac drive. At first the Lisa
> drive had solidified grease on the joints, which I cleaned up, after
> which it worked for a time - then it started refusing to read disks. I
> may attempt another repair attempt on this drive, but in the meantime
> the 400k mac drive is doing the job well.
>
> The Widget HD is a bit flaky. Maybe 75% of the time, the drive starts
> right up, makes the clunk sound when the brake releases. It booted
> Macworks XL just fine, and now boots Lisa Office system just as well.
> But intermittently, the drive will have some issues. Sometimes it
> starts spinning up, and then just stops without the brake releasing.
> Other times it will spin up, brake will release, and a few seconds
> later it will start slowing down and speeding up, and you can hear the
> pitch of the spinning sound going up and down, until it will just slow
> down to a stop and then there is a faint high pitched whine which
> subsides in a second or two. But the problem is intermittent.
>
> Anyway, wanted to join the list and to say hello to the Lisaverse.
> - Mike
>
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