Re: weird apple bus card and other issues

[labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth)]

Several reasons I came up with as to why a Lisa emulator needs to exist:
Remembering the system, seeing a mac predecessor in all it's...well, glory.
The ability for anyone to see what a Lisa was and is without having to go
find a scarce one, much less software, on their own.
An achievement, to emulate something which has never been emulated yet.
And they did have special software. aside from the Lisa O/S, they had
several programming workshops, Xenix OS, and a few other things like a
high-end page-layout program, and that...database...I want to say dBase,
but...and a Mac emulator. And they used some pretty unusual hardware.
As for them being not that hard to find, perhaps you are just lucky. I
have been unable to find any here in FL other than mentions and
acknowledgements, and people I know in other areas have occasionally found
a HackXL but that's about it. (HackXL being the
odiously-upgraded-by-a-SunRem-kit Lisa 2 into an underpowered Mac running
early mac system SW. Never to run Lisa O/S ever again...<sigh>)

> 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!