Apple Lisa Find

[aplmak]

So I found an Apple Lisa in GA!!! It arrived today... Needs a good cleaning and some cap repairs and stuff... Widget is dead for sure.. I can hear a piece of metal just loose inside rolling around.. Anyway.. what is odd is the serial number off the keyboard is scratched off and the serial number off the unit is removed.. I can see the residue left over from the serial number on the unit...

I remember at one time reading a post or someone told me that someone at one time broke into their house and stole a Lisa and some other stuff.. this would be strange but perhaps this is the one??? I have no idea why one would scratch off the serial number on the keyboard and take the sticker off the unit...

Does anyone recall that post or that person??

Matt

 

[unity]

I have never heard of serials being removed in such a manner, even when upgraded to an XL. So that is a bit odd. But being a Lisa no upgrades would have been done in such a way in the first place.

 

[snuci]

So I found an Apple Lisa in GA!!! It arrived today... Needs a good cleaning and some cap repairs and stuff... Widget is dead for sure.. I can hear a piece of metal just loose inside rolling around.. 

Congrats on the Lisa!

What you believe to be a piece of metal rolling around inside the widget drive is actually a piece of glass.  It is a piece that calibrates the head to tell it where it is, basically.  Since the drive is toast without it, you might open it up and see if you can glue it back in place.  I had one that broke off but I have heard that others had just fallen off with age because of the glue they used.  For the record, I couldn't get the piece glued in properly.  If you are able to glue it in, you might have to low level format the drive to "recalibrate it".   

See what damage the glass has in the drive first and take it from there.  Normally you wouldn't open a hard drive but it's "toast" anyway so why not try to McGyver it back to life... even if it is probably futile?

 

[aplmak]

Thanks for the advice.. I may give it a shot.. I've opened hd's before and got em to work... Forgot about the glass thing.. Wish me luck!!

Matt