Always put things on Ebay that are Lisa related. Don't throw them away.
> The miniscribe drives that I have seen were prone to failure because the > mechanism would suck in dirt that would stop the platters from moving. > There was a guy in Chicago years ago who repaired the mfm miniscribe > drives for real cheap. I had done some business with him and he finally > told me that he was getting away from repairing these drives. He said > that all he did was turn the drive upside down and blast it with > compressed air to remove the dust. That usually fixed 99% of the drives. > I just tossed 3 working 20 meg 3.5 " miniscribe drives on the 20th of > May of this year. I have had them in storage for 15 years and finaly > tossed them. Now I see that I could have sold them for good money. Isnt > that the way it always goes... > > -----Original Message----- > From: LisaList [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam > Vaughn > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 11:24 AM > To: LisaList > Subject: Re: New owner needs help > > The hard drive used in my Lisa is indeed not of the ProFile or Widget > type. It is a 3.5" disk, made by Miniscribe, which uses two card-edge > connectors on the end (otherwise known as MFM, if I remember correctly). > The only place I've seen these drives have been on the hard-cards which > are sometimes seen in older computers unable to support a hard drive > installation otherwise. I may have a replacement hard drive of the same > size and connection style on the way, but unfortunately, I don't have > any software which I could put on it. I'll take some pictures of the > controller and drive once I can get the drive cage out (the knob is on > there pretty tightly at the moment). > -Adam > > -- > Adam Vaughn > Collector of old computers, video game systems, radios and other > electronic equipment... > Visit my page at > http://www.electronixandmore.com/adam/index.html > > > > Hello Adam! > > > > I think, macmoni has given you the wrong answer. > > look at the attached pictures showing my own SUN 20 controller with a > Kalok > > Oktagon model 320 (20MB). > > Is this the same controller and hard disk found in your Lisa? > > > > If your answer is yes, then I can help you further. > > > > greetings, > > > > Helmut Post > > > > > > on 28.07.2005 5:54 Uhr, Adam Vaughn at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Hello everyone. I recently lucked into a Lisa. It appears to be a > original > > > Lisa 1 converted by Sun Remarketing into a Macintosh XL, since it > has a > > > parallel port on the back, but a 3.5" floppy drive of some sort in > the front. > > > It also has an internal 20MB HD, whose interface appears to connect > to said > > > parallel port. When I first got it, it actually managed to boot into > MacWorks > > > Plus 1.x.x, and then into System 6.0.2. Unfortunately, since then, > the > > > internal HD refuses to spin up anymore. I might have a source for a > > > replacement hard drive of the same type (3.5" MFM), but I'm unsure > as of yet > > > where I'd get software for this thing, or how I'd go about > formatting the > > > replacement hard drive to be readable/bootable by the Lisa. Any > ideas? 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