Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Mitchell Spector (spec@vax2.concordia.ca) wrote:

: >>     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. 

It looks like a Lisa 2 has a parallel port while a Mac XL doesn't. They
have the same model numbers.

Since my Lisa doesn't have a hard disk, I've never seen it work. The XL works
and has some software installed, pretty basic stuff.
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