Lisa/MacXL date code help
Mike
appropriate location, I'd appreciate it. I'm not much of a Mac user.
I was given a Lisa 2/10 that was later upgraded to a Macintosh XL. The
manufacture date code is "4002". Can anyone decode that? The info
Google led me to was sketchy.
Thanks, and apologies if this is way OT...
- Mike
Silicon Sam
The date should be encoded in your serial number. Where did you
find that manufacturing date code?
Erik Richard Sørensen
Of course it isn't, - it's a Mac product.:-)
The Lisa was introduced Jan. 1983
http://oldcomputers.net/lisa.html
Try a search on google with "apple lisa" - including the quotes. This
gives apprx. 85.000 hits...
Here are some loinks from google with the search terms "macintosh xl"
(quotes included, - apprx. 45.000 hits
Images:
http://images.google.dk/images?hl=en&q=%22macintosh+xl%22&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=G_Q8S4OiBpD1-QaSouGuCg&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBEQsAQwAA
Lisa and Macintosh XL index
http://lowendmac.com/lisa/index.shtml
Apple Lisa 2/Macintosh XL
The Lisa 2 was repackaged as the Macintosh XL in January 1985, ... With
MacWorks, the Lisa 2 and Macintosh XL can run a good deal of Macintosh
software, ...
http://lowendmac.com/lisa/apple-lisa-2-macintosh-xl.html
Apple Macintosh XL Specs @ EveryMac.com
The Apple Macintosh XL features a 5 MHz 68000 processor, 1 MB of RAM, a
400k disk drive, and the option of a 10 MB hard drive in a huge,
48-pound, ...
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_classic/stats/mac_xl.html
Main search results for "macintosh xl"...
http://www.google.dk/search?hl=en&q=%22macintosh+xl%22&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=
Main search results for "apple lisa"...
http://www.google.dk/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=%22apple+lisa%22&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=
Cheers, Erik Richard
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jim
Mike <magi...@computist-project.net> wrote:
> I was given a Lisa 2/10 that was later upgraded to a Macintosh XL. The
> manufacture date code is "4002". Can anyone decode that? The info
> Google led me to was sketchy.
You might try entering the serial number at this site:
<http://www.chipmunk.nl/klantenservice/applemodel.html>
It has never failed me.
jim
jonny
I have no idea about the date code, but one problem with the Lisa is you
can't set the date after December 31 1994, which may indicate how much
faith Apple had in the machine.
Forget the millennium bug, the Lisa had the 1995 bug!
Have a look here, there is a lot of documentation for the Lisa.
Mike
It's on the serial number sticker. Here's a photo:
http://computist-project.net/pics/lisa/IMG_1178.JPG
I notice that the "4002" is also the first characters in the serial
number. I'd assumed that "Manufactured" referred to date, but maybe
it's something else?
Thanks for the help!
- Mike
Mike
Wow. Thanks for all the resource links!
- Mike
Mike
Hmm. That page doesn't seem to be loading for me right now. I'll try
later.
- Mike
Mike
This is what that site gives me when I enter the machine's serial
number of A4002605.
"We are very sorry, but this serial number does not make sense..."
- Mike
Mike Dee
> I was given a Lisa 2/10 that was later upgraded to a Macintosh XL.
> The manufacture date code is "4002". Can anyone decode that? The
> info Google led me to was sketchy.
Dunno about the _exact_ date - your code (and "A4002605" from your
other post) gave no result to my searches.
If its of any use, these two Wikipedia pages give an approximate
time-line. Your Lisa 2 it appears - didn't make it to the great
Apple land-fill expedition (see "The end of the Lisa" in 1st link
below), so cudos to you ;-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lisa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_XL
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Mike Dee
> so cudos to you ;-)
Erm... kudos to you, that is ;-)
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