Re: Question about 1 vs 2

From: Jason Perkins <quanda_computing_at_email.domain.hidden>
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 16:31:32 +0000

I'd give the cable a try. If it doesn't work, it won't hurt anything. If that's the case, pick up a modem emmiminator or null modem adapter, and plug it between the cable you have and the Lisa.

-Jason

>From: AdamAnt316_at_email.domain.hidden (Adam Vaughn)
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>To: "LisaList" <lisalist_at_email.domain.hidden>
>Subject: Re: Question about 1 vs 2
>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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