Re: Question about 1 vs 2 from Adam Vaughn on 2005-10-04 (lisalist1)

From: Adam Vaughn <AdamAnt316_at_email.domain.hidden>
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:50:46 +0000

I figured it was probably converted by Sun Remarketing, but I thought the ones they did were called Mac XLs as well. The floppy drive is an 800K type. The hard drive inside is a real oddball; the card which connects to the external parallel port is an MFM controller, which runs a Microscribe 3.5" MFM hard drive. This drive actually stopped spinning up on me before, but miraculously started working again after being left alone for several months (knock on wood). The internal ROM is 3A, which is Sun's pixel-correcting MacWorks ROM IIRC. One question: how would I go about hooking a Imagewriter II to one of the serial ports this computer? I have a cable which has a 25-pin D-sub connector on one end, and an 8-pin mini-DIN serial-type connector on the other, but I'm not sure if it'd do the trick. -Adam

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> > Sorry to hijack this thread a bit, but I have a Mac XL which seems to have a


> > bit of an identity crisis. The front panel matches that of a Lisa 2, but the

> > set of ports on the back include a parallel port, akin to a Lisa 1 (also, the

> > unit came with an original-style Lisa mouse). The internal 20MB hard drive

> > connects to this parallel port via a ribbon cable which sticks out of the back

> > cover. The backside of the front panel has the word "PROTOTYPE" molded into

> > the plastic, as well as some shoddily-cut plastic here and there. Might this

> > mean anything? Thanks in advance.

> Apple only made MacXL's with a 10 meg internal drive.  Sounds like you have

> a converted Lisa2 (maybe an early prototype) with a later SunRem 20 meg

> widget drive.  Since Lisa's have no internal parallel port, they had to run

> the cable outside the case to use the external port.

> Rick 

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