[rescue] OT:Apple Lisa

[Andrew Weiss]

A nice machine to get one's hand on would be a 9700.

On Sunday, April 7, 2002, at 03:24 PM, James Rice wrote:

> Has anyone ever repaired a Lisa 2 with the following symptoms:  A 
> distorted video image on the upper 1/3 of the screen?  I'm the high 
> bidder on a Lisa 2 on ebay
>
> url:http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2013387255&r=0&t=0&
> showTutorial=0&ed=1018246402&indexURL=0&rd=1
>
> If you look at the screen shots, the video screen is distorted very 
> similar to what my compact macs do with cold solder joints on the 
> analog board.  I figure that it's either a similar problem, dirty 
> contacts  or bad caps on the board.  Just wondering if anyone has seen 
> similar symptoms.  I think I can get a Lisa video board from a friend 
> in DFW who has a cache of Lisa's in storage.  The guy's Apple 
> collection is awesome.  He has several of absolutely every product 
> Apple ever made including a lot of prototype stuff that was never 
> publicly released.
>

A nice machine to get one's hand on would be a 9700.

Andrew