Hi,
trying to clear the confusion with internal Widget drives and external
Profiles:
The ProFile, at least the 5 MB version, was compatible with the Apple
III.
Yes ! But also compatible with Apple Lisa
The only difference is the kind of formatting. That's all. (Same with
10MB)
formatted by a
Hi everyone out there !
The clock batteries are 4 convenient Accumulator cells with 1.2 Volts
and approx 600mAh - you can replace the 4 serial-connected cells
(total=4.8 V) with AAA Size NiCad or NiMH Types.
When I purchased my Lisa II from Sun many years ago, it has a dead
clock
battery, or a
Hi,
the first question at last:
I read that the ProFile could be low leveled with an Apple III and
some software.
... and an adapter card !
Could you do the same with the Widget disk or is it's command set
different?
It is possible. But it will be easier to simply change only the
Steve asked ...
Why has the Lisa team remained silent? Isn't there a book here? I'd
personally love to have all the anecdotes and the like concerning the
Lisa's development to read. There's a little bit about it on the Mac
Folklore site, but everything is so Mac-centric. It would be
For a great discussion of the development of the Lisa computer's user
interface see the following web site which has a transcript of a
presentation by one of the Lisa's creators, Larry Tesler.
Origins of the Apple Human Interface
Larry Tesler
Chris Espinosa
Oct. 28, 1997
And then it said, The software is integrated through a powerful and simple
user interface. And it doesn't say it here, but John Couch, who was in
charge of the Lisa project, did a sort of Kennedy
we're-going-to-send-a-man-to-the-moon-and-bring-him-back thing; he said All
I want is, I want to be
Now, we talked about testing. We said that the design's already based on
studies of user reactions to various models; as you saw, we did three or
four hours of testing. [Laughter] And we're going to do more testing, and
avoid any glaring design flaws. I was happy that that was put in, because
Those of you who know the Xerox Star know that the Xerox Star had that
feature. Those of us who were from Xerox were under a confidentiality
agreement, that we weren't allowed to tell the other Apple people about the
Star. And so, as you go through this, you'll sometimes find that things seem
We had active folders, so we had to have passive folders; the folder that
wasn't active was passive. Now look at the bottom. Who has ever seen Mac
OS8? And when you drag a window to the bottom of the screen it just kind of
pops, and becomes just a tab, and then you can click it and it will slide
But, we started. This motivated those of us who decided we had to do this
the right way to actually run more user tests. Because we thought maybe we
could overwhelm them with facts, and that will overcome this reliance on
votes of committees. So, Chris Doerr, Wallace Judd -- I think Wallace maybe
All right. Now it's still 1981, I should mention that the Xerox Star was
announced at NCC or something -- National Computer Conference, I think in
June of '81. Some Lisa people flew out there, got a look at it. Bill
Atkinson went, I believe, and Steve Jobs went, or maybe he sent Bill and
didn't
I remember very, very, very clearly that one of the massive controversies
around the development for the Macintosh, circa 1982-1983, was developers
would come up to us and say, You know, if you make the user interface
consistent, and if you put all that software in ROM that makes it -- you
know,
http://www.computerhistory.org/events/lectures/appleint_10281997/appleint_xs
cript.shtml
Origins of the Apple Human Interface
Larry Tesler
Chris Espinosa
5:30 PM, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 1997
Computer Museum History Center
Building 126
Moffett Field
Mountain View, CA 94035
This is a verbatim
Okay, so let's start at the beginning. I started at Apple on July 17th,
1980, and I just left there a few months ago. I was there for 17 years. This
memo was written on July 18, 1980, so one thing I discovered when I left the
big Xerox Corporation and went to this little Apple startup, was that
Greetings.
I'd like to add my name to the torrent of people after your CD set on
Lisa history. My address is:
Kevin Lindsey
3836 Inverness Road
Fairfax, VA
22033
Many thanks,
Kevin
--- Shirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Steve asked ...
Why has the Lisa team remained silent? Isn't there a
Here is a link to the Sun DYI guide for floppy lub info:
http://www.applefritter.com/lisa/texts/LisaSunRepair.pdf
Rick
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: LisaList lisalist@mail.maclaunch.com
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 11:41:02 -0500
To: LisaList lisalist@mail.maclaunch.com
Subject: Re: Clock
The clock has never worked. I know about the time issue. Not even setting
it to times the Lisa clock can recognize worked, even after I got it. I get
an error message that the time is not set (or something similar) every time
I turn the computer on. I assume the batteries were dead or the clock
At 5:53 AM + 5/11/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why has the Lisa team remained silent? Isn't there a book here? I'd
I don't think there's a book there. In general, product development
projects are not all that interesting as stories, which is why the
existing stuff about the Lisa is dry. The
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
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