Re: Restoring a Lisa

["Vince Briel" <vbriel@comcast.net>]

The Mothership has lisa info. Before I sold my Lisa I did a full restore on 
it including installing the Lisa OS.

http://jupiterii.tripod.com/

This site has the software and the links for the service manual. It's been 
over 4 years since I restored mine. I'd keep my eyes open for another board 
on eBay for the ROM's unless somebody has them on an image file.

Good luck, oh when I created my OS boot disks I used a 400K external Mac 
drive to create the disks, it wouldn't work on 800K drives. Well, they 
worked but wouldn't boot.

Vince


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"Andy Cuffe" <baltimora@psu.edu> wrote in message 
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> On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 07:28:39 -0400, "Vince Briel" <vbriel@comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
>>Low level format on Widget drive can only be done on an Apple /// with
>>special firmware if I remember correctly. What ROM's are you needing to
>>replace on the Lisa and Why? I know Sun Rem had screen kits that changed 
>>how
>>the Mac OS looked on a Lisa and also had a 800K floppy ROM, but neither
>>would keep you from loading Lisa OS.
>>
>>Keep your eye out for Widget drive on ePay and you should find one.
>>
>>Vince
>
>
> I removed all the boards from the hard drive and reseated all the
> connectors and ICs and it's changed what the drive does.  Now it seeks
> once before giving an error 82.  Before it took a long time and gave
> an error 85.  The Mac hard disk utility still returns a -95 error.
> The IDE adapter looks interesting, but I think I'll look out for
> another widget drive first.  Maybe I can combine two bad ones into one
> good one.
>
> I've read about the external profile drive requiring an apple III and
> special ROM to low level format it, but I've found nothing about the
> widget drive.  The profile is a completely different drive which uses
> a PC style MFM hard drive with an Apple controller.  The widget was
> made by apple and is completely proprietary.
>
> I still haven't made a Lisa boot disk to try, but I've read in several
> places that the Lisa OS won't work on a Lisa that has the square pixel
> ROMs.
>
> Some of the links posted by other people look promising.  They lead me
> to some pages I hadn't found.
> Andy Cuffe
>
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