Thanks for the pictures of the cooler.
Do you know the history behind ?
No idea of any history on that item. I picked it up for a song because when I purchased it the item wasn't working. It was listed as having a corroded battery pack that was also physically broken. Having done this enough now I knew it probably just need to be replaced. I purchased a few units of amazon for .99, spliced the wires on the first one that arrived to make sure it work, and it did. I then found the one that was the closest fit, took it to work, chucked it up in the vice, milled it down to the size I needed and was good to go. I've found one picture of another one online but never seen anything past that. I'd guess it was sold at the corporate store at some point.
On an aside, I had the first visitor to my mini Store yesterday. I was humbled and honored to have Al Kossow, the Curator for the entire Computer History Museum come by. He came over after I spoke with him about my prototype Lisa and seemed very curious. He come over with a profile drive loaded with BLU and dumped by hard drive. I showed him the machine, the differences between a stock Lisa and mine, the E87 as the ROM profile, F/B versus symbols on the back, smooth back vs. textured, and some other small things. He said it was absolutely 100% prototype and should never have left Apple. Al worked at Apple from 1980 to 2004 so now I know it’s legit (yay)! My prototype keyboard wasn’t working so he took it apart and showed me what I needed to purchase to fix the unit, which was so nice of him. Al is an amazing guy and extremely helpful. He's so intelligent I felt it was almost hard for him to talk to someone 1/100th as technical as him. I thought I was technical but after talking with him it showed me how noob I am. He told me about a 20MB prototype Widget Lisa drive that was frozen and I think we came up with a solution to attempt to break free the needle. I said if he broke the top open, the slightest amount of IPA and a bend hypodermic needle that he could probably break the oil down enough to spin the head free. I hope it works since it’s a 1 of none piece.
I then asked if he'd ever seen a G4 Cube prototype other than when he worked there, or if the Computer History Museum had one? He said to his knowledge none have ever surfaced. I smiled, tried to contain my enthusiasm and said "would you like to see one?" He raised an eyebrow and said huh? I said "that’s one right there." I pulled it out and started to show him everything. I nearly forgot to show him the speaker and he literally fell silent. He said he'd never seen one with a speaker, EVER. I told him about the chip and the very strange BootROM on the machine. He smiled and said that's sure a one of a kind piece you have there. I nearly peeded my pants.
Overall the Lisa dump was successful, not sure if there were any files under Lisa 3.0 but we’ll see.