Apple Lisa

[Ger ten Haaf]

Yesterday I succeeded in finding and getting a LIsa.
However, it has no start up disk in it.
Can anybody help me to get that lisa running again?

Greetings,
Ger

[Ken]

Congrats on getting a hold of such a rare Apple machine.

[Ger ten Haaf]

Thanks Ken

[Wholly Mindless]

Which drive does it have? The 5.25" Twiggy or the 3.5"

[Ger ten Haaf]

It has a 3.5"

[Wholly Mindless]

As I understand it the format is the same (or at least very similar) to an original 400k mac disk. I'm sure someone with a running Mac/Mac 512 could probably find a way to write a boot disk for you. (I don't happen to have one) I don' t know when 400k support became problematic for Macs.

(P.S. I could be completely wrong too but you had such a great find and no one seems to have helped in a productive way...)

[Ger ten Haaf]

Format is no problem.
I have enough old Macs to put it in every ever used Mac format.
Start up application is problem :-)
And dont worrie about getting helped.
Searching is part of the hobby.
london and Paris werent build on one day.

Thanks, so far.
Ger

[macdownunder]

Hi Ger,

You have two options, the Lisa Operating System or Macworks. Copies of both in disk image format are available from the following link:

Rauol's Lisa/MacXL Technical and Repair Info and Software

From memory, some of these are DART files - so you will need to find that Mac application to write the disks (I think it is somewhere in the same archive).

Good luck - hope you enjoy your Lisa!

Regards,

JD

[Ger ten Haaf]

Thanks for this.
As soon as I have the Lisa I will let You know.
For now, thanks again.

Ger

[Ger ten Haaf]

Ment to say: As soon as I have the Lisa RUNNING, I wil let You know. :-)

[macdownunder]

That doesn't sound too good. Does it power up at all?

JD

[Ger ten Haaf]

Yes, it does power up.
At least I see it reacting when I turn power to it.
So there is life.

[Wholly Mindless]

Keep us informed!