Lisa Audio-Card

Hi everybody,

I read the article about the Lisa 2 and discovered one sentence, to which I could add some further informations:

> ... to design a Lisa sound card.

In the early 80ies a not very big company here in southern Bavaria / Germany intends to devellop a sound card for the Apple Lisa. This company designed and manufactured receiver, tape-decks, phono- equipment, TVs, videorecorder and all such audio- and video-consumer electronics; it's name was Schneider Electronic in Tuerkheim. But back to the topic. They must have contacted Apple Inc. and have had some meetings and before they started to devellop their sound card, they bought or got some Lisa from Apple, built up a little network with a Lisa 2 or upgraded Lisa 1 as server and 5 or 6 further Lisas and started engineering. But this card was never been sold. The reason why they couldn't finish this project is not clear, but fact is: They didn't. Apple stopped the Lisa project and the Mac 128k had - strange but true - a built in sound-card, perhaps with some technical details from Schneider. But also Schneider gained from the very short "alliance" with Apple, a few years later they built their own computers, named Schneider Euro-PC and focussed their efforts in design, as Apple did years before with the Apple II and later with the Mac, too.
It must have been mid or end of the 80ies, when I drove to this factory with my friends VW, because they sold out all items of this develloping-unit. You could buy lots, mainly the whole interieur of different rooms. I only intended to buy some chairs, a table and perhaps one sideboard, but the guy there told me: "Only complete rooms! If you place your bid and if you'll make it, you have to take all that stuff, which is in the room!" So I placed my bid, won and finally had to split all the stuff and had to drive a second time, because my car was overloaded with furniture and even a huge Yucca- palm...
I remember the really heavy computers, all the Apple Lisas, which I stored in the VW. There were boxes with cables and some software, which weren't intersting for me, so I let them in the corner where they stood, when a few minutes later an elderly man came to my friends car and gave me this box, telling me: "You will need this for your computers there". I took it, smashed it in the car and asked him, why "he is so shure about the fact, that I will need this. I don't intend to work with this computers; perhaps I can sell them again." He told me, that he was a member of the crew, which were develloping an Audio-I/O Card for the Apple Lisa, but the project was stopped and now I have bought "his" room, where he has been working the last years and everything is gone. I could see the tears in his eyes, but still didn't realize, what an" Apple Lisa" was, neither an Audio-Card... I only needed some cheap furniture for my little room in Munich, where I will start my studies in a few months. Years later I met another person, which had worked at Schneider in the same project. She told me, that they were provided by Apple with a non-released software at that time. The next weekend I switched on one of those Lisas stored for years under the roof and the old lady booted without any problems. End of the 90ies I sold a part of those Lisas and the software disks, one by one. e.g. one Lisa stands in the computer museum of the University (Fachhochschule) of Coburg, the curator himself came and picked it up, including a set of disks. Another Lisa was bought by a private collector in Switzerland. The others I can't remember... Years ago I sold this Audio-I/O Card, which stuck in one of those three card-slots of the Lisa-Rack. If this person, who bought it from me, is also member of this LisaList, he perhaps could answer and provide some pictures of his card? And me? Well, I still have those disks

http://www.deschler-web.de/Bilder/LisaDisks1.JPG
http://www.deschler-web.de/Bilder/Lisa/Diskette.JPG
http://www.deschler-web.de/Bilder/LisaDisks2.JPG

but also some Apple Lisas and nearly every product Apple released after 1979 until the mid 90ies, because I was infected with the Apple collectors virus :-)

greetings TOM from Bavaria, the country of the marvellous castles of Koenig Ludwig, the Alps and last but not least the famous Octoberfest in Munich

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