Re: New owner needs help

From: <sauersr_at_email.domain.hidden>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 22:12:55 GMT

Always put things on Ebay that are Lisa related. Don't throw them away.

> The miniscribe drives that I have seen were prone to failure because the
> mechanism would suck in dirt that would stop the platters from moving.
> There was a guy in Chicago years ago who repaired the mfm miniscribe
> drives for real cheap. I had done some business with him and he finally
> told me that he was getting away from repairing these drives. He said
> that all he did was turn the drive upside down and blast it with
> compressed air to remove the dust. That usually fixed 99% of the drives.
> I just tossed 3 working 20 meg 3.5 " miniscribe drives on the 20th of
> May of this year. I have had them in storage for 15 years and finaly
> tossed them. Now I see that I could have sold them for good money. Isnt
> that the way it always goes...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LisaList [mailto:lisalist_at_email.domain.hidden] On Behalf Of Adam
> Vaughn
> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 11:24 AM
> To: LisaList
> Subject: Re: New owner needs help
>
> The hard drive used in my Lisa is indeed not of the ProFile or Widget
> type. It is a 3.5" disk, made by Miniscribe, which uses two card-edge
> connectors on the end (otherwise known as MFM, if I remember correctly).
> The only place I've seen these drives have been on the hard-cards which
> are sometimes seen in older computers unable to support a hard drive
> installation otherwise. I may have a replacement hard drive of the same
> size and connection style on the way, but unfortunately, I don't have
> any software which I could put on it. I'll take some pictures of the
> controller and drive once I can get the drive cage out (the knob is on
> there pretty tightly at the moment).
> -Adam
>
> --
> Adam Vaughn
> Collector of old computers, video game systems, radios and other
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>
> > Hello Adam!
> >
> > I think, macmoni has given you the wrong answer.
> > look at the attached pictures showing my own SUN 20 controller with a
> Kalok
> > Oktagon model 320 (20MB).
> > Is this the same controller and hard disk found in your Lisa?
> >
> > If your answer is yes, then I can help you further.
> >
> > greetings,
> >
> > Helmut Post
> >
> >
> > on 28.07.2005 5:54 Uhr, Adam Vaughn at AdamAnt316_at_email.domain.hidden wrote:
> >
> > > Hello everyone. I recently lucked into a Lisa. It appears to be a
> original
> > > Lisa 1 converted by Sun Remarketing into a Macintosh XL, since it
> has a
> > > parallel port on the back, but a 3.5" floppy drive of some sort in
> the front.
> > > It also has an internal 20MB HD, whose interface appears to connect
> to said
> > > parallel port. When I first got it, it actually managed to boot into
> MacWorks
> > > Plus 1.x.x, and then into System 6.0.2. Unfortunately, since then,
> the
> > > internal HD refuses to spin up anymore. I might have a source for a
> > > replacement hard drive of the same type (3.5" MFM), but I'm unsure
> as of yet
> > > where I'd get software for this thing, or how I'd go about
> formatting the
> > > replacement hard drive to be readable/bootable by the Lisa. Any
> ideas? Thanks
> > > in advance.
> > > -Adam
> > >
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> electronic
> > > equipment...
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> >
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