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  1. stepleton

    Formatting the Lisa 10MB Widget

    Congrats! Enjoy LOS and consider joining the conversation over on lisalist2.com as well.
  2. stepleton

    Formatting the Lisa 10MB Widget

    No, there is no need to mount anything onto any desktop. Your Widget is now completely empty. Just boot from the first Office System disk image in the same way you booted from the BLU disk image. Then follow the instructions on the screen to install the Office System to your Widget.
  3. stepleton

    Formatting the Lisa 10MB Widget

    This could mean a lot of things. On a normal startup, the Widget's activity light will blink a little bit and you will hear a squeak-squeak-SQUEAK-squeek as the Widget recalibrates the heads. What should happen next is the Widget starts its surface scan, where it blinks steadily for minute or...
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    How to copy LOS disk images from Floppy Emu to physical disk

    If your SE/30 has a working floppy drive, I would get Disk Copy 4.2 installed onto it and then use that to burn Lisa Office System .dc42 disk images onto floppy disks. Do you have a convenient way to get disk images onto your SE/30?
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    How to copy LOS disk images from Floppy Emu to physical disk

    What equipment do you have for reading and writing 400k disks? When we know what options you have, it'll be easier to pick a method.
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    A silly guy want to hook up his //c monitor to his Mac mini but failed

    I suspect "Hami" is HDMI. An RCA to HDMI converter is for taking video from the Apple II and putting it onto a modern monitor or TV. It won't work in the other direction: you can't get a video signal from a modern computer to an old display that way.
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    Floppy EMU on Lisa

    Congratulations! You were lucky! I recommend reading about BLU now. If you have a modern computer with a serial port, along with the appropriate cable, you will be able to make a complete byte-for-byte backup of your Widget onto some more reliable storage. Once you do that, you can replace the...
  8. stepleton

    Floppy EMU on Lisa

    An EMU is a train, an emu is a large bird, but a Floppy Emu is a floppy drive and hard drive emulator for Apple computers... It was probably correct for the Lisa. Lisa pixels are little tall rectangles; Mac pixels are squares. When MacWorks draws a Mac desktop with the Lisa's rectangular...
  9. stepleton

    Floppy EMU on Lisa

    What is the numerical code underneath the crossed-out floppy disk icon? I would disconnect the power cable and the data cable from the Widget for this stage of the investigation. Once we know better what's wrong with the floppy booting attempt, we can hopefully fix that first.
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    Floppy EMU on Lisa

    The I/O board test takes much less than a second. I had thought you were seeing a crossed-out I/O board icon. Are you seeing a crossed-out keyboard icon instead? If you have no keyboard, then you will get a "no keyboard" (crossed-out keyboard icon) error. This is normal. Question: during the...
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    Floppy EMU on Lisa

    This is a sign that your I/O board could be broken. There can be other reasons for this to happen, but the I/O board is a suspect. Sometimes these faults are accompanied by a numerical code. Do you see anything else on the screen besides a crossed-out icon? Is there any code on the screen? To...
  12. stepleton

    Floppy EMU on Lisa

    You unplug the floppy drive and plug the cable into the Floppy Emu, which must be running the Mac+Lisa firmware. There is no real elegant place to put the Floppy Emu: for me, it hangs off of a ribbon cable that snakes its way out from the case. When you turn on the Lisa, press a key while the...
  13. stepleton

    Mac OS 1-5 in swedish?

    The software on that CD is worth a shot, but it may not work for 400k Mac disks (and definitely won't work for 400k Lisa Office System disks) as the use of Disk Copy 6 means that none of the images kept the tag bytes associated with sectors on the disk. Give it a try --- it would be good to know...
  14. stepleton

    Checkmate Retro LCD Monitor

    Living in a place where space is at a premium, I'm pretty interested in a solution that packs many different types of display capability into a single box. If there's one thing that seems typical of modern-day retro display gizmos, it's heaps of itty bitty cables everywhere, always falling out...
  15. stepleton

    Lisa 2/10 black screen

    Display circuitry is not my specialty; my next move might be to review The Dead Mac Scrolls and extrapolate the syndromes it describes to the Lisa's video apparatus for more inspiratio. Do you see signs of a glowing heater filament in the tube? It's not always visible but you may be able to spot...
  16. stepleton

    Lisa 2/10 black screen

    Is there any sign of life from the display at all ever --- do you see any flickers during power-up or power-down?
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    Macintosh, Lisa, and IIGS Dealer and Developer Floppy Disk trove

    I haven't looked at them, but the "Sup" disks are likely different editions of the Macintosh supplement disks for the Lisa Pascal Workshop --- that is, the extra materials that allow you to make Macintosh software on your Lisa. We have some of these in places like bitsavers, but I think there...
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    Macintosh, Lisa, and IIGS Dealer and Developer Floppy Disk trove

    I certainly don't disagree with locking the disks. The philosophy I'm arguing from is one that minimises the opportunity for mistakes. If you have DC42, DART, and DC6 images lying around, then the day could come down the road when someone decides to pare down the collection. "There are like...
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    Macintosh, Lisa, and IIGS Dealer and Developer Floppy Disk trove

    +1 to saving disk images prior to deserialisation. Pace @MrFahrenheit , I would recommend NOT using DART or especially not Disk Copy 6.x for Lisa disks. Disk Copy 4.2 is the way to go for Lisa disks: - DART stores critical data in the resource fork. For DC42, all the info you need is in the...
  20. stepleton

    NEW Injection Molded - iMac G3 Inner Bezels

    Or PowerMac 6100/Centrisquadra 610 cases too! :D
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