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Bought a Lisa 2, dumped the disks!

Posted by: blitter on 2016-08-21 20:11:53 Hi all, about a month ago I bought a very nice Lisa 2 + Profile drive from a gentleman in the San Jose area. Original keyboard, original mouse, anti-glare filter(? I've never seen a Lisa with one of these-- maybe aftermarket?) and a box full of floppies! Lisa Office is in there obviously, but a number of other things too. I suspect this Lisa 2 was converted to a Mac XL at some point since there's a lot of MacWorks-related stuff in this batch. After I asked, the seller encouraged me to rip the floppies and share them on the off-chance that they might be hiding some rare or useful software from the machine's era. The Lisa itself doesn't boot yet-- one of the RAM boards is probably bad-- but I didn't waste time ripping as many of the floppies as I could. I primarily used Disk Copy 4.2 on my Mac Plus, and then fell back on my Mac II for a couple disks that gave me trouble. Five of the disks could not be copied at all, but I do have access to a KryoFlux so if images of them are really wanted then I could make them, albeit imperfect. I haven't taken the time yet to inspect the contents of these disks for the reason I mentioned above-- my Lisa is currently not working. Maybe someone here has the time and know-how to determine which, if any, of these disks haven't been posted online yet? The two disks marked "Prerelease MacWorks" might be of particular interest... Lisa Floppy Images.zip The "LisaTest for Lisa 2 Release 3.0" disk was a troublesome disk in this batch that I couldn't image. The "Lisa Office System 1" disk in this batch couldn't be ripped, but I'm pretty sure it's available elsewhere on the Internet. Likewise for the "LisaWrite 3.1" disk here. Finally, the second "LisaList" disk and the "LisaGuide" disk in this batch couldn't be ripped either. These could also just be master disks for Lisa Office System, which is available elsewhere online.

Posted by: lisa2 on 2016-08-22 07:43:46 The anti-glare filter was standard on all Lisa's from Apple.  They also came with a special cloth for cleaning the anti-glare filter.

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