Re: twiggys

Damned.

When I bought my first Lisa, an upgraded Lisa 1 to Lisa 2, the guy said he trashed the faceplate and Twiggy drives few days before thinking nobody will have any use of it.

I should be rich now without that... I still have the original 1A PSU. May be I can try to sell it....

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> Le 9 oct. 2016 à 20:56, chandra bajpai <cbajpai_at_email.domain.hidden> a écrit :
>
> 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
>
>
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>> 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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