Re: weird apple bus card and other issues

[chemo_gnostic@my-dejanews.com]

why are making a Lisa emulator? it was basically an underpowered
prototype Mac with no special software of its own.
They aren't that hard to find, I found a badly decomposed one in
a Salvation Army in Montana just a few months ago, though
they are scarce. The Kaypro 2000, now there was a machine!


In article <labelas-1011981906460001@1cust39.tnt23.atl2.da.uu.net>,
  labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth) wrote:
> Ok, I know this isn't exactly the right place, but the mention of old
> computers got me thinking...
> Is there anyone out the with an Apple Lisa that doesn't hold onto it for
> dear life? I mean, I know that they do fall into a sort of collectible
> area, expecially the lisa 1, but some of the things I've seen are absurd.
> Someone selling a Lisa for $1500 when it's not even in usable condition,
> or someone that has 25 Lisas that they got from somewhere and are holding
> on for their great 'value'. I mean, I guess...it just seems sort of...ah,
> never mind.
> It's just such a pain because me and several other people are working on a
> Lisa emulator (fine, yes, mock us if you will) and we've actually gotten a
> lot done, but only one of us has a Lisa and he's the farthest away. I've
> looked high and low for a even slightly working Lisa 2 and the attitude I
> get for the most part (there are some very nice people, I must admit, but
> none with surplus Lisas) is that I'm not a serious collector or that I
> need to be willing to really spend spend spend. And forget even trying to
> find, say, a ProFile or a Lisa 1. That's just hopeless. Anyway, I guess
> the point of this (though it's replying to something unrelated and will
> probably get only minimally read) is that is there anyone out there with
> an extra Lisa or 2, and a charitable heart? Being a college student, I'm
> one who has very little money. I mean, I can thrift store hunt, but that
> has yielded nothing Lisa yet, and I just don't have the resources to go
> eBay'ing. (And I have yet to find one of these veritable heavens where I
> go see some old college or business with a basement full of Lisas throwing
> them away or selling them dirt cheap)
>
> Thanks...
> Oh yeah, and if you feel like it, go look at http://emulation.net/lisaworks/
> (One wonders if there is a great dislike of emulation by many people...sigh.>
>

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