HI Ray, <br><br>and everyone else,<br><br>Just a little story, well a ramble, you may be interested<br><br>I live in Tasmania, Australia, at the time about 1997 I was in high school, was into Apple computers at the time, had various models, Mac Classic, LCII, bought a 512k Mac, anyway...<br>
Saw the Triumph of the Nerds series on TV, got me hooked on the idea of owning a Lisa.<br>At the same time, I did some work experience at the local Apple dealer in Tasmania, one of 2 in the state, talked to some of the tech guys there about Lisa&#39;s, they managed to look in their records, only 10 Lisa&#39;s were ever sold here, new. <br>
<br>Through friends of friends, pestering people continually one of them managed to find me one, it was a Lisa 2/10, with the internal hard drive. ROM H88, from memory, I think at the time I paid something like $200 Australian for it, don&#39;t know what the dollar to USD was worth then, that would be like $250USD today. well the screen was on the Fritz, all flickering, the Apple store was going to toss out all their new old stock Apple parts, so I managed to get a few video boards, power supplies etc.. etc... I was about 15,16 at the time, but managed with some guidance from a high school electronics teacher to discharge the CRT and change the board. I had to change the floppy too, but I pulled that from an Old mac. I remember it would only occasionally boot up, the hard drive must have been temperamental as well.  <br>
<br>The sad part of my Lisa adventures however, around the same time, I used to visit a local tip, to scrounge for old computers, bits, and lug them home on foot. You can just picture some poor kid hauling Commodore PET&#39;s with drives, NorthStar Horizons, big old heavy computers home on foot. and once there was a Lisa 1 there, sitting in the scrap yard, with a tin of house paint poured all over it, all over the screen, the drives, etc....they wanted.......$3 for it.<br>
<br>Turned my nose up at it, <br><br>On reflection I&#39;m sure parts out of it would be worth a few dollars more than that now.<br><br>With the prices Lisa 1&#39;s bring, could have been restored I guess.<br><br>Going to keep an eye out for another Lisa, and hopefully contribute more to the group.<br>
<br><br>thanks for listening.<br><br><br>Kind Regards<br>Des<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 March 2010 10:15, Ray Arachelian <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ray@arachelian.com">ray@arachelian.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">Des Hay wrote:<br>
&gt; Hi Ray<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Yes that was my website,<br>
&gt;<br>
</div>Hi Des,<br>
<br>
I&#39;m happy to keep a mirror of it for you.  Let me know if you want a<br>
copy of it to move elsewhere.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
&gt; had a Lisa 2/10, was running something like system 5.0x? I don&#39;t think<br>
&gt; it had the screen mod kid, as I remember the trash bin was quite tall<br>
&gt; on the desktop, wrote that site when I was about 15-16, in high<br>
&gt; school, sadly had to part ways with it in college due to needing the<br>
&gt; money.<br>
</div>Sorry to hear.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Glad to see it has survived.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Would like to get back into Lisa ownership in the near future again :)<br>
</div>Hopefully you&#39;ll be able to find a working Lisa 2 for not too much money<br>
soon.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; I have found memories of playing Beyond Dark Castle on the Lisa,<br>
</div>Believe it or not, I&#39;ve never played that game.  Oh well.  Something to<br>
look forward to discovering I guess.  I&#39;d presume Macintosh Garden would<br>
have it?<br>
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