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Here's some photos of the drive - I wanted to take a video of it spinning up, but my 1.8A Lisa PSU decided to bite the dust today.  :sad: Time for a re-cap project!

It's a MiniScribe 8425, I think. I'll try to take some pictures some time in the next few days and post them here!

Ah, that clears a lot up! Thanks for the tip. I tried the drive in my 2/5, using the parallel port connection on the back of the machine and the upper drive connector for power. I get the same results as when testing with the 2/10.

Is there an easy way to tell which is the correct orientation for the parallel cable? I did notice that the cable doesn't have a notch, so like you said, it's a bit confusing. When I turn on the Lisa with the drive connected, the drive spins up, the head stepper motor looks like it travels its...

Hi Rick, Thanks for your reply. I'm trying to use this drive with a 2/10, so there is no parallel port on the back of the machine. I was under the assumption that I could use the Widget drive connector in the card cage bay, since I believe that cable is an internal parallel cable on the 2/10...

I'm trying to get a Sun20 Hard Drive working in my Lisa 2/10, but I'm having some issues. The drive will spin up, and get to a solid red light (seemingly indicating it's "ready"), but it isn't shown in the boot selection dropdown. If I type Apple-3 to attempt to boot from it, I get an error 85...

I'm trying to fix two PowerBook 165c computers that have torn internal monitor ribbon cables. Sadly, I realize this seems to be a relatively common issue, but I was wondering if any other PowerBook models share the same ribbon cable as the one used in the 165c. Also, does anyone know of any...

Also, safety aside, keep in mind that leaving a CRT on for long hours showing the same screen is never a good idea for the health of the machine.

If you're sure the drive's read head is clean, you might want to check out replacing the Bourns Filters on your logic board. This problem seems similar to yours - maybe it can lend you some insight into your problem: https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/topic/22419-m0001-floppy-drive-problems/

Great job! It's always great to see one of these come back to life.

UPDATE: Looking at the voltages on the 6502 processor, something doesn't seem quite right. The address lines look like clean square waves, but they are only about 3.5-3.7V peak-to-peak. The data lines look very distorted and jumpy. The clock signal on pin 37 is only running at ~1MHz, and also...

The Lisa stores its information about its serial number (for use in copy protection) in the Video ROM (C6 on the CPU board). I don't know what would be causing your error if you haven't replaced the CPU board or that chip specifically, but there is a command you can run from within service mode...

It's important to note that although the Lisa will complain about not having a keyboard, it is not required, and the system will still boot. You'll hear any error beeps / see any error codes about 3 seconds after the Lisa notifies you there's no keyboard attached. - fri0701

If you've got a 2/10, your Plus mouse should work without any modification of the connector. Here's a site with all the Lisa schematics, including the PSU: http://lisa.sunder.net/cgi-bin/bookview2.cgi?zoom=0?image=0?book=6 The Lisa PSU has a small hole on the side that leads to a potentiometer...

Hi everyone, Well, once again, I'm back to attempting to fix this stubborn ///. I've made some progress, and I'm hoping someone experienced enough can recommend what I should try next.  I've caved, and purchased a Reactive Micro Universal PSU and installed it in the ///, with no change. At...

Nice! Mine has both labels; the metal one on mine is #12810.

I also happen to have a Lisa with a property tag, like yours. Mine is #A0613, and was given to me by an old Apple programmer who (he thinks) used it to program Macintosh software (it's been a while). It's a Lisa 2. I believe these were just normal production machines used for development or use...

I think I may have found some information for you! Here's a page from InfoWorld about this "mystery" card...

Not sure if you're still looking for these, but my IIvx has a 820-0373-B.

I'm in the process of replacing my Lisa keyboard's foam pads, and I realized that the caps lock key doesn't stick halfway down like it should. I'm afraid I may have lost something from the mechanism that makes this work. Does anyone happen to have any detailed pictures of the caps lock assembly...