Guitarman
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Hello everyone!!! This is my first post in these forums. I am primarily an Atari collector (as you can see by my sig), but I do have a restored Apple Lisa that I thought I would share. I acquired it from my x-wife's old boyfriend back in the early 90's. It did not work so he gave it to me since he knew I was into 'computer stuff'. Turned out the only reason it wouldn't work was because the felt pad on the floppy drive head mech had fallen off and was lying in the bottom of the case. Of course, I didn't have any software at the time for it and couldn't get the ProFile drive to do anything. By chance, I was looking through a clearance bin of software at a music store in San Diego (where I lived at the time) and found a complete, unopened box of the Lisa Office System 7/7 for $10.00!! Of course, I still couldn't get the system to work right, probably because I had no idea what the h*** I was doing with the thing. So, it went into storage. fast forward to about 2005, I decided to break it back out and have a go with it, since I had done a bit more study on the system and how to get it to work. Using my new found knowledge, I managed to get the ProFile recognized and, using the 7/7 disks, formatted. I then installed the 7/7 system and presto!!!! Finally a working Apple Lisa. I had acquired another ProFile drive by this point and did the same installation on it.
Thanks for listening to my ramblings. I will now slither off to the Atari forum and hide!! LOL
Thanks for listening to my ramblings. I will now slither off to the Atari forum and hide!! LOL