Re: Inherited a Lisa and some parts.........

are you sure its rubbing alcohol? The heads on cassette recorders and videotape recorders required the use of denatured alcohol - not rubbing alcohol - because rubbing alcohol also contains a substance that remains on the heads after it evaporates which makes the heads get dirty quicker and is not good for the tapes - surfaced with similar recording material as the floppies.

• Original Message ----- From: "Jason Perkins" <perkins.jason_at_email.domain.hidden> To: <lisalist_at_email.domain.hidden> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 7:14 PM Subject: Re: Inherited a Lisa and some parts.........

>
> Use a Q-tip with rubbing alcohol, and wipe the head. (don't wipe the
> pressure pad)
>
> -Jason
>
> On 1/22/07, toby <toby_at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Jan 18, 1:02 am, "SeanF" <sean.f..._at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:
> > > Now im trying to get it to work. I think it's a Lisa 2. I/O board has
> > > missing battery pack with a little corrosion but not much. it looks
> > > like it has an 800k drive and matching ROM from SunRem as well.
> > > It powers up but will not boot any floppies (drive reads then gives
> > > error 23 and ejects, happens with every single one).
> >
> > Head cleaning? Procedure, anyone?
> >
> > --Toby
> >
> > > I've got several
> > > floppies (MacWorks boot, install, etc.) and i've create some of my own
> > > from DART images (400k, 800k & Mac disks) but none work. it has a
> > > SunRem 1mb card and a 20mb drive on a SCSI card that spins up but
> > > obviously i can't get to it since i can't boot from a floppy.
> > >
> > > ROM @ bootup is H/A8.
> > >
> > > I do have another I/O board (came in a box of junk with the Lisa).
With
> > > that I/O board I get an error on startup (multiple beeps then an error
> > > 57). the floppy drive never spins.
> > >
> > > I've cleaned all the connectors with alcohol and still nada. I've also
> > > tried 2 different drives with the same results. one 800k drive and one
> > > 400k drive. when i installed the 400k drive i got an error 39 (wrong
> > > drive ROM) which i expected.
> > >
> > > any help is greatly apreciated.
> > >
> > > thx.
> > >
> > > - sean
> >
> >
> > >
> >
>
> >
>

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