Apple Lisa computer

I have an original Lisa, which is rare because Apple offered a free upgrade to the Lisa 2.

I also have several Lisa 2s, which were later known as the Macintosh XL.

The original Lisa contained two Apple-proprietary Twiggy 5.25 inch floppy disk drives, with a storage capacity of 880 Kbytes each. However, these drives were found to be somewhat unreliable in practice, so the Lisa 2 used a single Sony 3.5 inch floppy drive instead.

Simulation:

There are not yet any Lisa simulators, but several people are working on them:

Hardware emulation:

Tom Stepleton is working on a hardware interface to allow a PC to act as a ProFile Emulator.

For more information:

Apple Lisa Web Page, including the Apple Lisa SAQ (Seldom Asked Questions)
Rob Bedeaux's Lisa page
archaic apple
Lisa/Macintosh XL Do-it-yourself Guide
Raoul's Webserver and FTP server
Simon White's Lisa Tribute page
Sigma Seven Systems Ltd. still sells some Lisa accessories.
Obsolete Computer Museum's Lisa page
The Machine Room's Lisa page
The Unofficial, Unathorized, Apple Online Museum's Lisa page
Thomas Scolan's web page has some Lisa information (in French) and some photos

Dead links:

(are there new URLs for these?)

We Love our Apple Lisas, was at http://www.photonpub.co.uk/appleretro/welovelisa.html
Apple Lisa Home Page, was at http://www.southcom.com.au/~desieh/index.htm

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Last updated May 15, 2000

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