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Has your Lisa suffered any corrosion damage from batteries over the years, even minor? I've had similar problems (not sure of the exact error code) in the past, and it all boiled down to bad traces on the motherboard backplane. I jumped many bad traces (on the underside) and finally got things...

This is super cool! I hope you're able to dump them all and archive them somewhere. If you do deserialize any Lisa software you find, it would be good to save a version before deserialization as well. You can inspect the image and determine the serial number of the Lisa the software is bound...

Nice work! That's a good step forward. It looks like your video board needs some adjustment (and recapping that wouldn't hurt, either). Once you take off the back and front panels, there are two hidden screws under the back lid that will allow you to take the top plastic of the machine off. From...

I've recapped one of these PSUs before (The 1.8A a nice addition to have alongside the hard drive). You should be able to remove all the screws and slide the board carefully out of the metal enclosure without separately removing those plastic stalks. Just take it slow and you should be able to...

I created a disk image of the drive using the Disk Copy (6.3.3) utility under Mac OS 9. Thanks for the link! I'll have to take a look and see if I can migrate my files over to a bootable image.

Hi everyone, I have a (beige desktop) Power Mac G3 with a broken internal hard drive. I'm trying to set up a SCSI2SD v.5.5 with a bootable disk image so I can boot over SCSI. However, I can't seem to get the settings right, and I don't think I'm configuring something properly. Here are my specs...

An update - I think I found it! I realized I still had the drive that this program ran on, and after some work, I was able to extract a disk image. After looking through the deleted files on the disk, I believe I was thinking of several versions of Aris Media Clips - CDs that contained what were...

Thanks for the input! This looks vaguely familiar, but I don't think it's quite what I'm looking for. I think the different topics such as Space, Animals, and so on were represented as files with custom icons in the Finder itself. There may have also been an enclosing application akin to a...

Hi everyone, I’ve been trying to remember the name of a piece of software I remember using years ago, but I can’t put my finger on it. I’m hoping someone here can point me in the right direction… This software ran on a Power Mac G3 (the flat beige model), on what was probably some version of...

I don't believe at the moment that the Workshop tools were translated into different languages. The Pascal disks simply being labeled as "2.0" seems to support this.

The other images I got (included in the archive) didn't have the same installation problems with the "can't write to the disk" error as yours did. I'm not entirely sure why. Also, the LisaGuide image you sent me turned out to be from LOS 3.1F, not 2.0F! I saw your email and will update the...

Thanks to the combined efforts of users bibilit and pascalg, as well as Apple Lisa Facebook user Renaud Feyfant, we were not only able to piece together a complete set of Lisa Office System 2.0F (French), but also Lisa Office System 3.1F (French)! The only things missing are the examples for...

The original batteries will eventually corrode - you'll want to take those out and clean the contacts thoroughly if you haven't already to stop the further spread of corrosion on the battery compartment / analog board edge. Dying RAM chips can be a pain on the 128k, but until one dies, I...

Through LisaEm, you can create new ProFile images, install whatever you want on them, and save them as 5MB disk images. You can then take whatever ProFile images you like and attach them to LisaEm (and specify which you'd like to boot from). It's possible to load several at once by emulating a...

I took a look at these images today, and the disk Macintosh Repository (and others) have labeled as Disk 5 is actually LisaGuide 2.0. I think this means that we do, in fact, have all of the OS disk images for 2.0F! Ray has confirmed that the install failure we're seeing was introduced in a...

I’m getting that same issue for all versions of LOS 2.0. I’ve been in contact with Ray (developer of LisaEm), and I believe he’s taking a look.

Unfortunately, probably not. The Macintosh's keyboard was in its final stages of design when the Twiggy Macs were produced in the summer of 1983, and finished shortly after. The serial number label came later, too - some early production keyboards just have 4 or 5 digit numbers.

Hi bibilit, Would you mind posting the product numbers that correspond to each disk you imaged? (for example, something like "682-0088-A = LisaCalc", and so on). Pictures would be great, too! As for emulation - my copy of LisaEm can't install LOS 2.0 in any language currently, for some reason...

The Lisa 2 looks to have started out as a true Lisa 2 (it's not an upgraded Lisa 1, according to the label). The Lisa the serial number label corresponds to was assembled on August 23, 1983. This is pretty early for a 2/10 or XL. Normally, the A6S0200 model corresponds to a Lisa 2/10, and the...

Thanks for doing the imaging! I’d love to take a look at the images, if you can send them over.