vibius wrote:

Nope, although back in the early 80's I had an Apple Lisa!!

Holy sh*t!!!! I actually still own an Apple Lisa!!! Have it sitting on my desk, and it still runs... Lisa Office 7/7 with 128KB RAM and a 10MB external Apple ProFILE hard disk. It's only the 3.5-inch drive version... I'd kill for a 5.25-inch twiggy drive.

You should check out my Apple Museum... http://www.macgeek.org/museum/

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groink wrote:

Holy sh*t!!!! I actually still own an Apple Lisa!!! Have it sitting on my desk, and it still runs... Lisa Office 7/7 with 128KB RAM and a 10MB external Apple ProFILE hard disk. It's only the 3.5-inch drive version... I'd kill for a 5.25-inch twiggy drive.

I had a 2/10 (2MB RAM, 10MB HD). It was top o' the line, and very spiffy. (They accidentally sent me the 2nd MB of memory for free ... but I forgot to tell them). I loved how the guts were all modular and came apart with little levers and thumbscrews. Built like a tank. I don't think any PC has been as well built since.

It had Classcal ... Mac Emulation ... Lisa Office ... loads of fun. I had all the development documentation too ... but all that is long gone. The computer busted a few years later, and I donated it to a school as computer junk.

A friend of mine who later went to work at Apple told me they used Lisas for landfill after the Mac took off Probably just legend

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You should check out my Apple Museum

Boy looking at the pictures was nostalgic. Sniff, sniff I'm getting a little misty remembering my old Lisa!

ahochaude wrote:

Was that the one with the green screen and you could play Frogger and that Turtle game? We had typing classes in elementary school and the teacher used to make us play around with the Turtle game and have him change angles (by punching in degrees) and move him which ended up creating a line (like slugs).

No ... sounds like you are talking about the Apple II, maybe. The Apple Lisa was a very badass computer when it came out. Check out the pics Groink posted about:

http://www.macgeek.org/museum/applelisa1/

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Don't know Linux.

Well, there's still time

Man, you Apple guys are scarin' me.... Our VP waxes poetic about Apple as well, while the rest of us roll our eyes to the backs of our heads...

vibius wrote:

No ... sounds like you are talking about the Apple II, maybe. The Apple Lisa was a very badass computer when it came out. Check out the pics Groink posted about:

I looks very ancient!

vibius wrote:

Well, there's still time

Question is, will it be worth my time to learn about it?
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ahochaude wrote:

Question is, will it be worth my time to learn about it?

No. Trust me.

bmwracer wrote:

No. Trust me.

Must be really old and out dated then huh?

Kind of like 8 tracks or something?!
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bmwracer wrote:

No. Trust me.

Don't listen to that boy, Aho! He's a terrorist!


Linux is the one true operating system. You will be assimilated.

vibius wrote:

Don't listen to that boy, Aho! He's a terrorist!

Uh oh.

vibius wrote:

Linux is the one true operating system. You will be assimilated.

Is it an Apple thing?

*walking and talking like zombie*

I am assimilated...
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vibius wrote:

A friend of mine who later went to work at Apple told me they used Lisas for landfill after the Mac took off Probably just legend !

The story is actually true... I just got through writing up a review for the new book Apple Confidential 2.0 by Owen W. Linzmeyer. On page 80:

Sun Remarketing was doing pretty well selling the leftover Lisas after upgrading them with the latest Mac technology, but in mid-September 1989, Apple decided to literally bury the Lisa once and for all. Under the watchful eyes of armed sercurity guards, 2,700 Lisas that SUn had on consignment were interred at the landfill in Logan, Utah (requiring 880 cubic yards at $1.95 a yard), so Apple could receive a tax write-off that year.

I know of someone who actually visited the site a few years ago. I think nothing's built on it, however I don't anyone has ever bothered breaking the ground to dig up old Lisa parts.

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ahochaude wrote:

Is it an Apple thing? *walking and talking like zombie* I am assimilated...

Linux is UNIX for PCs, basically.... Yawn.

bmwracer wrote:

Linux is UNIX for PCs, basically.... Yawn.

Gasp! Splutter!

HEATHENS!

groink wrote:

I know of someone who actually visited the site a few years ago. I think nothing's built on it, however I don't anyone has ever bothered breaking the ground to dig up old Lisa parts.

They're probably as moldy as Jimmy Hoffa at this point.

Hey I read on your page about that guy selling his Lisa for big bucks ... That made me want to cry.

vibius wrote:

Gasp! Splutter! HEATHENS!

So what bmw said wasn't true then?

I'm lost already.
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bmwracer wrote:

Linux is UNIX for PCs, basically.... Yawn.

Anyone looking for a dirt cheap server? There's actually a Linux build for the Microsoft XBox. You can probably turn one of those devices into web server, or better yet a BitTorrent box. Maybe JDorama.com should turn one into a DNS server. LOL! j/k I had to say that!

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groink wrote:

Anyone looking for a dirt cheap server? There's actually a Linux build for the Microsoft XBox. You can probably turn one of those devices into web server, or better yet a BitTorrent box. Maybe JDorama.com should turn one into a DNS server. LOL! j/k I had to say that!

Yikes!!

Why don't we go back in time and use VAX-785 mainframes with VT100 terminals???

ahochaude wrote:

So what bmw said wasn't true then? I'm lost already.

Dude, Linux is not just Unix for the PC. It also makes you SEXIER!

bmwracer wrote:

Why don't we go back in time and use VAX-785 mainframes with VT100 terminals???

I started out on paper terminals and punch cards! There was this cool Star Trek game ....

Hey, why did everyone fall asleep!?

vibius wrote:

I started out on paper terminals and punch cards! There was this cool Star Trek game ....

Tell me about it! I was using those in college... What a pain it was using those cardpunch machines... And blank cards were sold in vending machines like candy and sodas... We didn't move to DECwriters until the following year...

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Hey, why did everyone fall asleep!?

Evidently.

bmwracer wrote:

What a pain it was using those cardpunch machines... And blank cards were sold in vending machines like candy and sodas

Yeah, but you could open the little door underneath the punchcard machine, and take out the drawer that collected those little punched-out rectangles. Boy, you sure could make a mess with them.