MOS8_030
Well-known member
Hello!
So I have this old Sun Remarketing Lisa 2/5 with a 400K floppy that I've had for about 20 years.
It's got a 5 meg Profile drive that it boots from that's been rebuilt at least one time in its past.
I don't think the Profile PS or HD are original to the case.
It's got a Sun20 hard drive kit. The hard drive powers up but I can't get the system to boot from it. (My fantasy is it just needs reformatting... right?)
As is typical, the KB has a lot of bad keys and the floppy drive tries and sometimes succeeds to read a disk, but mostly fails.
It's just been sitting around for most of that time doing nothing.
Recently I decided it was time to do something with it.
I hooked it up and turned it on and frankly was amazed when it powered up for the time since ~2001.
However after about five minutes the Profile drive began leaking magic smoke.
So I quickly shut it down and took a look inside.
Long story short, the PS for the Profile had leaky caps and burned up one of the choke coils.
So for about $15 worth of parts I recapped the Profile power supply and it lives once again!
Anyway, I thought you'll might enjoy a few photos of the Lisa.
I also have another unique mac I pulled out of storage. Surprise! It has PS issues as well. I'll make a post with some additional photos later.
So I have this old Sun Remarketing Lisa 2/5 with a 400K floppy that I've had for about 20 years.
It's got a 5 meg Profile drive that it boots from that's been rebuilt at least one time in its past.
I don't think the Profile PS or HD are original to the case.
It's got a Sun20 hard drive kit. The hard drive powers up but I can't get the system to boot from it. (My fantasy is it just needs reformatting... right?)
As is typical, the KB has a lot of bad keys and the floppy drive tries and sometimes succeeds to read a disk, but mostly fails.
It's just been sitting around for most of that time doing nothing.
Recently I decided it was time to do something with it.
I hooked it up and turned it on and frankly was amazed when it powered up for the time since ~2001.
However after about five minutes the Profile drive began leaking magic smoke.
So I quickly shut it down and took a look inside.
Long story short, the PS for the Profile had leaky caps and burned up one of the choke coils.
So for about $15 worth of parts I recapped the Profile power supply and it lives once again!
Anyway, I thought you'll might enjoy a few photos of the Lisa.
I also have another unique mac I pulled out of storage. Surprise! It has PS issues as well. I'll make a post with some additional photos later.