Re: twiggys

My Lisa-1 came from a South Africa missile testing range.
>From what I've learned is that it was delivered to South Africa as a Lisa-1
but converted over to a Lisa-2 by an IT technician. Between that time the Apple pulled out of South Africa because of Apartheid.
The technician who sold me the system didn't haven't any place to return the twiggies/face plate so kept them.
I bought the system in 2005, I discovered the technician still had the twiggies and had him convert the unit back to a Lisa-1.

IMHO, quite an interesting story,

-Chandra

On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 5:44 AM, Adrian Graham <binarydinosaurs_at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:

>
>
> On Sunday, October 9, 2016 at 2:06:03 AM UTC+1, Chandra wrote:
>>
>> I've only seen 1 pair of twiggies go up for auction on ebay since the
>> late 90's...it went for crazy money, but not this high.
>> Same with a lisa-1 face place, there have only been 2-3 since the late
>> 90s. Big bucks, but not 5-7k worth.
>> I wonder what happened the the rest of the lisa-1.
>>
>>
>> The vast majority of them became Lisa 2s because of Apple's free upgrade
> programme to get rid of the unreliable slow clunky twiggys, this is why
> people want faceplates and the drives since the rest of a restoration is
> fairly straightforward - my Lisa 2/5 was originally a 1 but I'll never be
> able to afford to restore it. Anyway it works as it is which is good enough
> for me :)
>
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