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"Macintosh Professional" considered the first Hackintosh?
Posted by: uniserver on 2013-04-28 13:28:53
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_XL

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Sun Remarketing

After Apple dropped the XL from their price list in September 1985, Sun Remarketing of Logan, Utah bought a number of Apple's remaining inventory and continued to sell them under license with their updated version of MacWorks Plus, re-branded as the Macintosh Professional.

Though no new Lisas were available for sale, development continued on MacWorks Plus to support the installed base of Lisas, making them as relevant as their closely related cousin, the Macintosh Plus.

Sun Remarking - catalogs

http://retromaccast.ning.com/photo/albums/sun-remarketing-1989-catalog

interview with Bob Cook from Sun Remarketing.

http://retromaccast.libsyn.com/episode-230-apple-game-server-online-
Posted by: Trash80toHP_Mini on 2013-04-28 13:50:57
http://www.classiccomputing.com/CC/Blog/Entries/2012/1/15_Interviewing_Bob_Cook_from_Sun_Remarketing.html
Posted by: olePigeon on 2013-04-29 08:54:34
Wow, that was a hell of a deal! $1000 for a Lisa with 20MB HD? The Plus was about $2000. Seems like a no brainer. I bet they sold like hot cakes.
Posted by: uniserver on 2013-04-29 10:11:35
I bet they made darn nice mac's 🙂

I would of loved to have one… back in the day. would have been much better then my IBM PS/2 :-D

Thanks Trash80 for posting the correct link to the interview.
Posted by: Gorgonops on 2013-04-29 11:04:25
Without an accelerator a Lisa only runs at 5mhz vs. a Mac Plus' 8mhz. While there are certain elements of the Lisa hardware that compensate for the clock difference somewhat a Lisa running Macworks would have been a real slug even by 1987-ish standards.

(Granted it's comparing apples to oranges, but I doubt *any* IBM PS/2, with the possible exception of the 8086 based Model 30, would benchmark slower than a Lisa on abstract computational tasks.)
Posted by: MinerAl on 2013-05-01 19:54:09
If I had an empty Lisa2 shell, a Mac Plus, and an Apple 12" mono monitor, I would hack up a square-pixel Mac XL (the Plus brain driving the 12" tube in the Lisa shell), and a cool little grayscale 9" monitor/external floppy combo (the grayscale monitor brain driving the 9" tube in the now otherwise empty Plus shell). And maybe a LC toppin' Macquarium.

jt, do you know anybody with most or all of these things? 😉

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