applefreak Posted January 31, 2012 Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 my latest find, bought from first owner ( Belgium ) Apple Lisa XL , serial number A4282221, manufactured 4282 - 8 october 1984 a stock mac XL 1MB ram, H/88 - screen 90x60 dpi - roms 341 0175 H in socket D13, 341 0176 H in socket D14 - disconnected the widget drive, started up in built-in service mode to test the system - replaced the floppy drive with a repaired one - tested with the 10MB widget drive, no boot - unable to repair the HD i have a replacement, a spare internal drive (non Apple) or the X/Profile original floppys in package Lisa Office System release 3.0 package, floppys arranged all floppys original Lisa 2 mouse azerty keyboard as extra 2 boxes, AppleTalk M2010Z - one box still sealed - ______________________________________________________________________________ my apple collection Quote Link to post Share on other sites
macgreg Posted January 31, 2012 Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 Awesome - congratulations! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bibilit Posted January 31, 2012 Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 A great find anyway, expensive ?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mcdermd Posted January 31, 2012 Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 Sweet! The Apple with the split personality! Pictures to follow? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cosmo Posted January 31, 2012 Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 That is a seriously good find! Or did you have to pay for it, a lot? Those babies are rare no matter where. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CelGen Posted January 31, 2012 Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 If you were closer, I would offer money for your dad widget assembly for some experiments I am trying to do. Nice system regardless. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trash80toHP_Mini Posted January 31, 2012 Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 I wanted to get one of those so badly from Sun Remarketing back in the day I could TASTE IT! I was doing all my Logo/Artwork Digitizationon a Fat Mac back then. I drooled over the 12" CRT, but the budget wouldn't let me do it. The money was a lot better spent, in production terms, later on a Quadra 630 . . . but . . . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
applefreak Posted February 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 early mac's : in 1984 there (Belgium) was a demonstration of the Lisa with a CAD application, 2D and 3D in separated modules (Radar CH - later ArchiCad) but the combination computer, application, miniplotter wasn't affordable at all bought in 1985 a secund hand 512k in 1987 Mac plus (text & spreadsheet), 1989 SE/30 (MiniCad & Ashlar Vellum, Ragtime, Photoshop, FileMaker) 1991 a fully loaded Quadra 700, two-page screen + high resolution RGB screen, Houston pen plotter DMP-62 A0, Archicad v3, stylewriter and laserprinter NT now i have some Lisa 2"s and searching RadarCH ......... - the mac XL wasn't expensive - ______________________________________________________________________________ my apple collection . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
antony701 Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 Excellent addition to your collection! Just wonder if the AZERTY keyboard normal in your region. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheIanMan85 Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 Nice one! I brought my old Mac XL (I'm 99% it's a SunRem, but I haven't booted it in years....) to my apartment the other week. Still hunting around in my stuff for the original skinny button mouse, or at least a compatible one. Then I'll fire the beast up. I understand wanting these...I did for years until I stumbled upon two at a friend's company business that's run Apple products for a long time. I got two non-booting machines from them in exchange for a Power Mac 5500 (or 5400?) I had then recently gotten from a local school's surplus. This was 2003ish. They were running OS 8 and 9 at the time, so they got a usable machine. I got one complete working system between the two, another for parts, manuals (at least one in shrinkwap), software, maybe a second keyboard? Good deal. I like the AZERTY keyboard and LocalTalk kit. Software on original floppies are always a good find too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
applefreak Posted February 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 AZERTY keyboard it's the only one i have all my other Lisa keyboards are qwerty azerty keyboards aren't very handy for working in service mode > only qwerty ______________________________________________________________________________ my apple collection . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
slomacuser Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 Is that possibly a "multiserver" on AppleTalk brochure? Kind of one like was sold on eBay last december? http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150711856973+#ht_500wt_1413 http://idisk.mac.com/lefevere/Public/Appletalk.JPG Quote Link to post Share on other sites
applefreak Posted February 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 the picture is only at the back of the box it's a 'device' with the apple logo it isn't similar to the "multiserver" in the manual : about device : Any piece of equipment that can be attached to a network - a Macintosh, Macintosh XL, LaserWriter, file server, or other accessory Photo 1 Photo 2 ______________________________________________________________________________ my apple collection . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheIanMan85 Posted February 5, 2012 Report Share Posted February 5, 2012 What is that Apple badged box? I can't identify it, can anyone else? It's connected via LocalTalk, but doesn't look like any Apple product I've seen. Applefreak quoted the manual as "file server or other accessory" so I guess it falls into one of the two. Any ideas? Prototype server/NAS? That one has me wondering now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Strimkind Posted February 5, 2012 Report Share Posted February 5, 2012 Going by the image on the Macintosh XL, it was meant to be a file server. Notice the 3rd disk in the image is a 'Multi' something. Possible that prototype MultServer or some other device that was still at the prototype stage. I do wish we could know more on what was being tested for the Macintosh Office back in the day. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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