apple lisa!

[nahuelmarisi]

I finally got an apple lisa! Although without a floppy drive or hardrive. It works, just need o figure out how to get a floppy drive and/or HD besides seeing if it's possible to cram the OS on a floppy.

 

[Maconthemove]

Wow, nice conquest.

 

[Huxley]

That's awesome - congrats! Please share the story - how did you come to find a Lisa? I (and I'm sure lots of others) have been looking for one for years with no luck...

:-D

Huxley

 

[nahuelmarisi]

Well to be honest, a while ago. That is about 2 weeks or so I saw one on ebay UK, and it was there only for 48 hours. Obviously I bid on it, but I didn't win . The auction ended around £150 or something and I had just bid £130. The price didn't go that high I think because it was there for a very short period of time, or I guess nobody was that interested, who knows.

Fortunately for me the winner for some reason did not buy the thing due to some problem on his side it seems (since he didn't get a negative qualification). Anyway making a long story short, I was offered a second chance bid so I got it at £132!

It is the second lisa i've seen on ebay uk in years. And the other one was dead. So i think I'm pretty lucky considering that an apple three went for a much higher price the other day.

unfortunately it does not have a floppy drive or HD, so I can't boot Lisa OS just yet.

 

[mac2geezer]

For anyone interested, there are at least two Lisa's on ebay right now.

 

[blackbird]

You got any pics?

 

[MacMan]

That's amazing! I did see that one on eBay UK briefly but it was a bit out of my price range. These second-chance offers seem to happen a lot with Apple Lisas in the UK for some reason, yours is not the first story in which someone's been outbid on a Lisa but gets it later on when the high bidder doesn't pay.

 

[TheNeil]

yours is not the first story in which someone's been outbid on a Lisa but gets it later on when the high bidder doesn't pay.

That's how I got mine. Bid £150 for my dead machine but got outbid at the last minute. The guy who won then turned round to the seller and said that he thought he was bidding in dollars instead of pounds (?!?!?!) so second chance offer to me. Drove down to London to collect it and the guy knocked another £10 off. Get it home, give it a check over and hit the power switch...all springs into life (screen just needed adjusting). One very happy TheNeil

 

[MacMan]

That's how I got mine. Bid £150 for my dead machine but got outbid at the last minute. The guy who won then turned round to the seller and said that he thought he was bidding in dollars instead of pounds (?!?!?!) so second chance offer to me. Drove down to London to collect it and the guy knocked another £10 off. Get it home, give it a check over and hit the power switch...all springs into life (screen just needed adjusting). One very happy TheNeil

That's where I had heard that story before before - on your site!

 

[nahuelmarisi]

It seems that the trick when bidding on a lisa is to come second on the auction! If you come first something beyond your control will happen to prevent you from aquiring it!