Re: i know its not apple 2 but a lisa question.

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

bo snyder <bobo_snyder@hotmail.com> wrote
>
> anyway i have heard that some people have been looking for originals of
lisa
> software (or at least copies of the original) because lisa software that
has
> been installed to a lisa gets written to.  in otherwords, when you install
> lisawrite to your lisa, the original floppys get the system serial or
> something like that written to them and if everything is not 100 perfect
and
> matching when you go to reinstall the software, the reinstall will fail.
> the cd that i got has what looks like to be original virgin images of lisa
> o/s 3.1, lisa pascal workshop, lisawrite, lisacalc, lisadraw, lisagraph,
> lisaguide, lisalist, lisaproject, lisaterminal, macworks xl boot disk and
> macworks xl system disk.
>
> if anyone needs info or some of these files, i will see if i can find a
> place to put them so that you could download them.
>

I was able to find them on the net a while back, so they are probably still
out there. There is also a procedure to un-I.D. the install floppies, though
I guess that's only a concern if you have more than one Lisa.  But thanks
for the offer!
-Paul