Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes...

>Mitchell Spector <spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:
> 
>> In article supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes...
>> 
>> >Many more Lisas were sold to Sun Remarketing where they package
>> >it with Mac emulation and called it the Macintosh XL...
>> 
>>     Actually it was Apple that did the renaming, the Lisa 2 was
>> assimilated into the Macintosh line and called "Macintosh XL".
>> If I'm not mistaken, they didn't change the hardware inside (or
>> even do as much as give it a new Apple product part number code).
> 
>There was at least one modification: the screen hardware is modified
>slightly to change the aspect ratio of the screen.  The Lisa doesn't
>have square pixels, but a proper Mac XL does.

    Ah yes, I remember that change now. Are you certain Apple did it 
to the Macintosh XL (aka Lisa 2) and not Sun Remarketing though?

>I have a vague feeling that another modification was done, but don't
>remember what.

    Randy Shackelford has both a Lisa 2 and Mac XL in his collection,
maybe he could answer that. 

>>     Hmm, as for the Lisas burried in a landfill, didn't they gut
>> the machines and burry just the empty cases?
> 
>"Burry"?  :-)

    Heh, it's interesting how the lack of a good night's sleep, combined
with spending several long hours at work, and then posting to a newsgroup 
just before heading off to bed can cause you to inadvertently create new 
words for English language. :-) Just add that one to the list, along with
"borken" (I can't take credit for that last one ;). I meant "bury" of
course. :)

>I don't remember hearing that it was just the cases - wherever it was I
>originally read about this said that the remaining stock of Lisas had
>been buried, which to me implied entire machines.  (I read this well
>before the earlier quoted Byte article.)

    Ick, how wasteful then! They should have at least donated them to
a charity or something. Assuming they survive, they could make an
interesting find for archeologists a couple of centuries from now. ;)

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca