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my latest find, mac XL

Posted by: applefreak on 2012-01-31 05:46:26 my latest find, bought from first owner ( Belgium ) Apple Lisa XL , serial number A4282221, manufactured 4282 - 8 october 1984 a stock mac XL 1MB ram, H/88 - screen 90x60 dpi - roms 341 0175 H in socket D13, 341 0176 H in socket D14 - disconnected the widget drive, started up in built-in service mode to test the system - replaced the floppy drive with a repaired one - tested with the 10MB widget drive, no boot - unable to repair the HD i have a replacement, a spare internal drive (non Apple) or the X/Profile original floppys in package Lisa Office System release 3.0 package, floppys arranged all floppys original Lisa 2 mouse azerty keyboard as extra 2 boxes, AppleTalk M2010Z - one box still sealed - ______________________________________________________________________________ my apple collection

Posted by: macgreg on 2012-01-31 07:28:16 Awesome - congratulations!

Posted by: bibilit on 2012-01-31 07:29:19 A great find anyway, expensive ??

Posted by: mcdermd on 2012-01-31 09:20:54 Sweet! The Apple with the split personality! 😀 Pictures to follow?

Posted by: Cosmo on 2012-01-31 10:45:35 That is a seriously good find! Or did you have to pay for it, a lot? Those babies are rare no matter where.

Posted by: CelGen on 2012-01-31 12:44:15 If you were closer, I would offer money for your dad widget assembly for some experiments I am trying to do. Nice system regardless.

Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2012-01-31 14:47:13 I wanted to get one of those so badly from Sun Remarketing back in the day I could TASTE IT! I was doing all my Logo/Artwork Digitizationon a Fat Mac back then. I drooled over the 12" CRT, but the budget wouldn't let me do it. The money was a lot better spent, in production terms, later on a Quadra 630 . . . but . . . :'(

Posted by: applefreak on 2012-01-31 16:02:19 early mac's : in 1984 there (Belgium) was a demonstration of the Lisa with a CAD application, 2D and 3D in separated modules (Radar CH - later ArchiCad) but the combination computer, application, miniplotter wasn't affordable at all bought in 1985 a secund hand 512k in 1987 Mac plus (text & spreadsheet), 1989 SE/30 (MiniCad & Ashlar Vellum, Ragtime, Photoshop, FileMaker) 1991 a fully loaded Quadra 700, two-page screen + high resolution RGB screen, Houston pen plotter DMP-62 A0, Archicad v3, stylewriter and laserprinter NT now i have some Lisa 2"s and searching RadarCH ......... - the mac XL wasn't expensive - ______________________________________________________________________________ my apple collection .

Posted by: antony701 on 2012-01-31 17:25:42 Excellent addition to your collection! Just wonder if the AZERTY keyboard normal in your region.

Posted by: TheIanMan85 on 2012-01-31 22:17:00 Nice one! I brought my old Mac XL (I'm 99% it's a SunRem, but I haven't booted it in years....) to my apartment the other week. Still hunting around in my stuff for the original skinny button mouse, or at least a compatible one. Then I'll fire the beast up. I understand wanting these...I did for years until I stumbled upon two at a friend's company business that's run Apple products for a long time. I got two non-booting machines from them in exchange for a Power Mac 5500 (or 5400?) I had then recently gotten from a local school's surplus. This was 2003ish. They were running OS 8 and 9 at the time, so they got a usable machine. I got one complete working system between the two, another for parts, manuals (at least one in shrinkwap), software, maybe a second keyboard? Good deal. I like the AZERTY keyboard and LocalTalk kit. Software on original floppies are always a good find too.

Posted by: applefreak on 2012-02-01 09:42:36 AZERTY keyboard it's the only one i have all my other Lisa keyboards are qwerty azerty keyboards aren't very handy for working in service mode > only qwerty ______________________________________________________________________________ my apple collection .

Posted by: slomacuser on 2012-02-01 10:53:28 Is that possibly a "multiserver" on AppleTalk brochure? Kind of one like was sold on eBay last december? http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150711856973+#ht_500wt_1413 http://idisk.mac.com/lefevere/Public/Appletalk.JPG

Posted by: applefreak on 2012-02-01 12:29:37 the picture is only at the back of the box it's a 'device' with the apple logo it isn't similar to the "multiserver" in the manual : about device : Any piece of equipment that can be attached to a network - a Macintosh, Macintosh XL, LaserWriter, file server, or other accessory Photo 1 Photo 2 ______________________________________________________________________________ my apple collection .

Posted by: TheIanMan85 on 2012-02-04 19:42:10 What is that Apple badged box? I can't identify it, can anyone else? It's connected via LocalTalk, but doesn't look like any Apple product I've seen. Applefreak quoted the manual as "file server or other accessory" so I guess it falls into one of the two. Any ideas? Prototype server/NAS? That one has me wondering now.

Posted by: Strimkind on 2012-02-05 10:42:31 Going by the image on the Macintosh XL, it was meant to be a file server. Notice the 3rd disk in the image is a 'Multi' something. Possible that prototype MultServer or some other device that was still at the prototype stage. I do wish we could know more on what was being tested for the Macintosh Office back in the day.

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