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Save This LISA!
I have a LISA 2/10 in the attic and am seeking advice about what to do with it. I used it for years and have great respect for this machine but I am gradually facing the fact that I will never again be geeky enough to do anything with it. I would like to see it put to good use rather than wonder about whether it will end up in a landfill. I could post it on eBay but I'm not sure that would ensure its highest and best use.
It was converted to a Mac XL but I have all the original parts. I also have the original 7/7 software and a bunch of program disks, mouse, keyboard, and an Imagewriter (II?). It all worked when it was last turned off but that was a long time ago.
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
It was converted to a Mac XL but I have all the original parts. I also have the original 7/7 software and a bunch of program disks, mouse, keyboard, and an Imagewriter (II?). It all worked when it was last turned off but that was a long time ago.
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
My first thought would be to turn it into a web server or run a BBS off it... but I'm sometimes a bit of a masochist ;-)
Now THERE'S a project for RetroChallenge!
Lisa Office System is pretty capable (it even has spell check built in, a rarity for 1983 software) and integrates better than Office, iWork, AppleWorks, or just about any suite of apps released since. Since you have a printer I recommend using it for something, perhaps a short word processing project with a table and a drawing. I think you'll be impressed.
Lisa Office System is pretty capable (it even has spell check built in, a rarity for 1983 software) and integrates better than Office, iWork, AppleWorks, or just about any suite of apps released since. Since you have a printer I recommend using it for something, perhaps a short word processing project with a table and a drawing. I think you'll be impressed.
Take lots of pictures so we can all ooh and aah at its pristine attic ripened beauty
If you don't have a use for it, personally, I'd put it on eBay.
I could be mistaken, but they go for hundreds of dollars on there. Anyone willing to drop several hundred dollars on a vintage computer is most likely going to be a collector. Nobody's going to drop half a grand on a vintage computer for it to end up in a landfill.
I could be mistaken, but they go for hundreds of dollars on there. Anyone willing to drop several hundred dollars on a vintage computer is most likely going to be a collector. Nobody's going to drop half a grand on a vintage computer for it to end up in a landfill.
keep it. in the meantime, this community should be able to convince someone to do a port of browser6. you could be our lead beta tester. - ppl in retro communities with lisa's tend to be scarce. - apart from mothballers.oops i mean collectors
would u consider setting it up so we can dial in to it with telnet for the purpose of software development?
give it to me for the postage (shipping) and i will port lwip to it.
Failing that, sent it to my frined in North Carolina so we can set up a terminal dial in type of arragenment so i can do the same over the net....
Failing that, sent it to my frined in North Carolina so we can set up a terminal dial in type of arragenment so i can do the same over the net....
The postage cost paid by me of course..
We can all find inspiration in this man's ballsiness.
This thread is fully of weirdness.
Well the reason I wont settle for an emu for developing software is primarily a reason I didnt want to mention, but as ur painting me in a shade of grey, I will mention i would like to put my energies into building an ethernet board for it. after lwip and a maybe port of browser6(under LOS browser3? )
and if you think that an ether board is farout, it isnt. There are ether boards/carts for atari 8 bit and 16bit machines, apple II's (two) c64's (two) amiga 68000^(many) ad many more..
After of course learning Clascal - Lisa's object orientated pascal language...
The reason it seems weird is i dont want to pay for a very heavy machine to come over in a shipping container, possibly being lost at sea (100,000 -300,000 containers get washed off deck every year,worldwide)
So I asked my friend in North carolina in America if he would keep it there(less postage) and set it up with a webcam for visuals, an old plotter mechanism hooked up to his unix box sitting over the KB to type with (with a type buffer!) and the mouse port hooked up to his serial port somehow.
That would allow software dev
For HW dev? well, 1 step at a time
Now does that seem cool, or weird? :/
and if you think that an ether board is farout, it isnt. There are ether boards/carts for atari 8 bit and 16bit machines, apple II's (two) c64's (two) amiga 68000^(many) ad many more..
After of course learning Clascal - Lisa's object orientated pascal language...
The reason it seems weird is i dont want to pay for a very heavy machine to come over in a shipping container, possibly being lost at sea (100,000 -300,000 containers get washed off deck every year,worldwide)
So I asked my friend in North carolina in America if he would keep it there(less postage) and set it up with a webcam for visuals, an old plotter mechanism hooked up to his unix box sitting over the KB to type with (with a type buffer!) and the mouse port hooked up to his serial port somehow.
That would allow software dev
For HW dev? well, 1 step at a time
Now does that seem cool, or weird? :/
Seems cool to me. I wasn't trying to make a monkey out of you.
Aren't you a monkey?