Re: Clock battery and floppy lubrication

2005-05-11 Thread Dr. Helmut Post
Hi, I think you have a problem with your COPS412 chip: The COPS421 handles the RTC (Real Time Clock) which has a span of 15 years. Consequently this was set for 1980 to 1995, which means that it'll be really interesting to set dates such as 1998. Talk about Y2K premonition! I wonder what Apple wa

Re: Clock battery and floppy lubrication

2005-05-11 Thread Dr. Helmut Post
BTW: I forgot to mention the book from Larry Pina: Macintosh Repair and upgrade secrets, ISBN 0-672-48452-8, Hayden Books 1990. There you can find many useful informations concerning the periodical lubrication method and much more (about the Lisa too). The lubrication is done with WD 40- please us

Re: Dead I/O Board?

2005-06-09 Thread Dr. Helmut Post
Hi Clinton, Error 52 means: Problems with a defective COPS chip on the I/O board. After the total cleaning of all I/O board connectors you should check your COPS chip. I hope these informations help you a little bit further. Helmut Post on 09.06.2005 1:25 Uhr, Clinton Yelvington at [EMAIL PROTE

Re: floppy lubrication and print head bar lubrication

2005-06-22 Thread Dr. Helmut Post
and have > had excellent results. > > -Original Message- > From: LisaList [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dr. > Helmut Post > Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 12:32 AM > To: LisaList > Subject: Re: Clock battery and floppy lubrication > > BTW: I forgot to

Re: New owner needs help

2005-07-28 Thread Dr. Helmut Post
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

Re: I/O board compatibility?

2005-08-25 Thread Dr. Helmut Post
Hi, I have a Lisa 2/5 and a 2/10 (XL). I have successfully installed an XL I/O board in my Lisa 2/5 ( with the old battery backed-up I/O board). there are no big differences between the I/O boards- however, I have used a different 800KB ROM for the XL I/O board. The XL I/O card fits in a 2/5, but

Re: Widget can't keep up !

2005-09-07 Thread Dr. Helmut Post
Hi Mike! Error 85 usually means that the Widget doesn't come to a "ready" state within a given timeout value. Probably the boot block and/or the spare block can't be read. That means: The Widget needs a Low Level Format. The Floppy doesn't need any additional power cable- the flat cable includes

Re: Lisa + Profile cable question

2005-09-07 Thread Dr. Helmut Post
on 07.09.2005 21:54 Uhr, Stephen M. Jones at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've got my parallel printer port board, my Lisa 2 and my profile 10MB > drive. However, I do not have an original cable. I've got a DB 25 male to > male 'parallel' cable .. will that work for me? I have the same combinatio

Re: Lisa + Profile and SCSI cable?

2005-09-07 Thread Dr. Helmut Post
I have successfully repaired a loud Profile 10 MB (Seagate ST 412) by pulling off the flywheel of the HDU with a pull-off tool. You can get all kind of pull-off tools in almost any size at your local tool shop. To test the proper size of the pull-off tool, take your HDU with you if you enter the sh

Re: PFG Lisa

2005-10-13 Thread Dr. Helmut Post
Hi Phil and greetings from Bavaria (Franconia, the northern part of Bavaria near Nuremberg)! The black clip attaches to PIN 1 of the 74LS137 at position 6A on the Lisa I/O board, the red clip attaches to PIN 5 of the same 74LS137 at position 6A. That's all! I hope that instructions could help you

Re: PFG Lisa

2005-10-13 Thread Dr. Helmut Post
Hi Phil, Hi Tom! > As far as I know, the black wire is Ground > (I'm shure) > and the red one is frequency output > (I'm not so shure, I only remember by brain) and I used that last time > more than a decade ago ... > It was used to get a synch. signal to an external unit. e.g. a widget > drive

Re: PFG Lisa

2005-10-14 Thread Dr. Helmut Post
Hi Phil, congratulations- you have almost finished your work. > My goal is to install 7.1 onto a SCSI drive. Do you have a PFG with the MacWorks II+ PRO option? System 7.1 (or 7.5) will only run with the "PRO" option as far as I know. But you can run System 6.07 or 6.08 first- try to format you

Re: PFG Lisa

2005-10-16 Thread Dr. Helmut Post
Hi Phil, > I have the 'Pro' version of the PFG. I also have a single 2 meg SUN > REM card installed (fully loaded with ram). No 512k cards installed. > 2MB are ok with System 7.1, but you should consider using RAMCharger: http://www.jumpdev.com/orc/OptiMemRAMCharger.html#LABEL_DOWNLOAD_LOCAT

Re: PFG Lisa

2005-10-16 Thread Dr. Helmut Post
Hi Phil! My congratulatios!! > My next project is to get lisa OS running. Do I have to downgrade the > roms and 800k drive to do this? > No, you only need a hard disk connected to the parallel port. Any Profile 5 MB, 10 MB , a Widget (10 MB) or a SUNREM hard disk should work. You don't have t

Re: Lisa 2/5 Profiles crash

2005-10-19 Thread Dr. Helmut Post
You need an Apple III with a Profile Interface card, a Low Level format kit (Apple III disks plus Z8 processor with LLF EPROM's) to format your Profile hard disk. There is no book or service web site as far as I know. Helmut - Original Message - From: "Joe Vogel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Re: Lisa 2/5 Profiles crash

2005-10-20 Thread Dr. Helmut Post
on 20.10.2005 13:27 Uhr, Joe Vogel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > Thanks for you feedback to my post. > > As far as what I would need do you have any ideas > where i might be able to get these items. > > I've been keeping my eye out for the Apple ///. > > > > Joe You can buy an Ap

Re: Lisa 2/5 Profiles crash - ProFile formatting

2005-10-23 Thread Dr. Helmut Post
Apple technician who has repaired my widget and performed a LLF. He won't give away his knowledge or the utility software. Thanks in advance, Helmut Post P.S.: Do you know my friend Patrick Schäfer ? He has built an IDEFile emulator for the Lisa (and Apple III) > -- >> From: "

Re: 7/7 install failed on SUN REM drive

2005-10-24 Thread Dr. Helmut Post
Hello Joe, I think you can obtain a copy from James Mac Phail or John Woodall http://sigmasevensystems.com/index.html http://vintagemicros.com/ Helmut - Original Message - From: "Joe Vogel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LisaList" Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 2:37 PM Subject: Re: 7/7 i

Re: Taking apart Lisa - cleaning

2005-11-02 Thread Dr. Helmut Post
Hi, I have replaced all old electrolytic caps and the power surge caps in my Lisa- no more problems- and the Voltages are more stable than ever before. I have even exchanged all electrolytic caps in the video circuit- the picture is now much better- the slight jitter is gone. I'd recommend everyone

Re: error 85

2005-11-03 Thread Dr. Helmut Post
Hello Phil, error 85 means: you have reached the hard disk time-out limit... the hard disk hasn't answered within a given time- probably the system track, boot secor is bad . You need a fresh low level format.- or a new drive if the number of bad blocks exceeds 30 counts. > > I have just finishe

Re: error 85

2005-11-03 Thread Dr. Helmut Post
e ;-) > > > > I won't give up on the Sun REMarketing drive yet. Maybe I'll email > > SUN REM direct. > > If I don't have the tools, maybe they can still reformat my drive > > for me. > > > > Thanks for your reply > > > > P >

Re: Taking apart Lisa - cleaning

2005-11-03 Thread Dr. Helmut Post
Hi Phil, you don't have to replace all caps- only the electrolytic caps and the "transparent" , sometimes white or yellowish power surge protector (interference suppression) caps - I had several "explosions and ugly smell" with these power surge protector caps. If the Lisa had been stored in a hum

Re: Taking apart Lisa - cleaning

2005-11-03 Thread Dr. Helmut Post
Phil, I forgot to mention the following book: Macintosh Repair & Upgrade Secrets by Larry Pina Hayden books ISBN 0-672-48452-8 former price (in 1991): $32.95 There is a big Lisa section inside this book- the removal procedure of electrolytic caps is very good illustrated with many pictures. He

Re: Taking apart Lisa - cleaning

2005-11-03 Thread Dr. Helmut Post
ld anyone know where the caps that need > to be replaced are located? (C-?) > > P > > > > On Nov 3, 2005, at 11:55 PM, Dr. Helmut Post wrote: > > > Phil, > > I forgot to mention the following book: > > Macintosh Repair & Upgrade Secrets by Larry Pina >

Re: How many working Widgets?

2005-11-04 Thread Dr. Helmut Post
No, the Widget doesn't have a variable rotational speed ( 3600 RPM constant speed +-3%)- it uses the same GCR (group code recording) as known from other Apple mass storage devices. The problem with the widget is the doubled track density- the Widget uses only one platter/2 surfaces/ 612 tracks/17 s

Re: Lisa Keyboard Repair - Here comes how to...

2005-11-06 Thread Dr. Helmut Post
on 06.11.2005 13:56 Uhr, Philip Lord at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a spare keyboard I'd like to get going. There are maybe 10 > dead keys, and a few really sticky ones. what causes them to stick? > > P > > > On Nov 6, 2005, at 7:36 PM, macmoni wrote: > Hi Phil, the Lisa keyboard is to

Re: Lisa doesn't power on - power lights up for 1sec, speaker clicks, then off.

2005-11-29 Thread Dr. Helmut Post
Hi Ray, > So my questions are: > > 1. Is there a known symptom/fix for the power button lighting up for > half a second this way? Is it an I/O board, motherboard, or CPU board > issue? Anyone else had a CPU board that got slightly warped and wouldn't > fit? Any way to relax them enough to fit

Re: Xenix. Sun Rem 2 meg card.

2006-01-07 Thread Dr. Helmut Post
Hi everyone, happy new year to the LisaList and special greetings to Phil! > > I have recently purchased (Xmas present to myself) one of John > Woodall's X-Profile boards, as my original drives are all failing. I > was going to try to build an IDEfile (and I may still do) but I worry > my skills

Re: Xenix. Sun Rem 2 meg card.

2006-01-08 Thread Dr. Helmut Post
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Re: Lisa schematics

2006-01-09 Thread Dr. Helmut Post
Hi Jason, I can send you what you need. I have done the same as you do- my video board is working fine again! Helmut P.S.: Can you tell me your email address? I have just tried to send you a Lisa video PDF file- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't work. on 09.01.2006 21:01 Uhr, Jason Perkins at [EMAI