Re: Apple Computers-collector's items?

[mrbill@ionet.net (Bill Bradford)]

In alt.folklore.computers Tom Stepleton <ssteplet@artsci.wustl.edu> wrote:
: In 1986 (or was it 87) John Scully, prodded by some investors,
: was encouraged to dump the Lisae for a tax writeoff. The
: computers were gutted and buried in Utah, the parts kept or
: sold to outfits like Sun Remarketing (also in Utah).
: I believe this version is farily accurate; IIRC some page on
: CHAC's website (was it a copy of the Analytical Engine?)
: mentioned that, though going through Utah with a pickaxe is
: not worth a few thousand gutted Lisae, their Lisa/XL's case
: is getting a bit yellowed. (As is mine!)
: --Tom Stepleton, still looking for a Lisa 1 (hah)
: While we're on the subject,
: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~ssteplet/lisa.html

I've got a Lisa, 1mb RAM, 400k floppy drive, 5mb external ProFile, mfg
date of '82 . . which one do I have?  Right now its just holding up
a bookshelf and I need to get rid of it.........  I dont have an
OS for it.

bill

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