Re: Apple Lisa?

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

John Broderick (bubbaz@umcc.umcc.umich.edu) wrote:

:   Maybe this has been gone over before, but I couldn't seem to find
:  anything in the newsgroups about it.  Do people still have and use
:  Lisas?  Do people sell them?  I know they were outrageously priced
:  when they came out, so do people keep them to get their money's worth?
:  I saw somewhere that people are still making software for them, and
:  it made me kinda curious.  Any info would be greatly appreciated.

I have, or rather, my family has, a Lisa II/5, with 1/2Mb RAM and a 5 Mb
ProFile drive.  The thing works fine, it's running the Lisa Office System
7/7, and has a single 400k floppy drive (internal).

It's a little slow, but no worse than the original Macintosh

It makes a good back-up computer...Mom has a ][e, I have a IIgs, we all
have the Lisa.  If only it were easier to transfer files back and forth...

We got the whole system a couple of years ago (computer, hard drive, Apple
DMP printer) for around $200-$300.  Not bad, really, considering all the
things the Lisa can do with the Office System!

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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