Re: twiggys

With prices like these it may well be profitable to produce a modern day twiggy drive replacement - maybe based on 5.25" drive mechanisms, and a 3d printed faceplate. :)

On 03/16/2017 11:09 AM, Jérôme Vernet wrote:
> 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....
>
> Envoyé de mon iPhone
>
> Le 9 oct. 2016 à 20:56, chandra bajpai <cbajpai_at_email.domain.hidden
> <mailto: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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 5:44 AM, Adrian Graham
>> <binarydinosaurs_at_email.domain.hidden <mailto: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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