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The internal Widget hard drive can be replaced with: X/ProFile by SigmaSevenSystems, sold by VintageMicros (currently being relaunched). ESProFile drive emulator by Alex Anderson-McLeod. This is an open-source project and you can have your ESProFile manufactured very inexpensively. This is...

Wikipedia documents this rather well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacWorks_XL

That's a 1.8A PSU and the video board.

This is a good question, and I hope someone has the answer. My experience with installing Lisa 7/7 apps is limited, unfortunately. What I did, however, was use BLU to make copies of original (virgin master) Lisa Office System 3.1 floppies, including Office System and all 7 apps. Then I used the...

Yes, and that port is the same for both Lisa 1 and Lisa 2/5 machines. Some feature resistors on the traces, while others do not, yet they function in the same way. It's a particularly interesting anomaly, in my opinion. Side note: Your board features a significant amount of the blue stuff, i.e...

The Lisa 1 and 2/5 have an external parallel port on the rear, made for the external ProFile hard drive. The 2/10 and Mac XL lack that port, as it moved to be internal and supported the Widget hard drive. If your unit has an internal Widget hard drive, it's either a 2/10 or a Mac XL. The...

I've purchased these for both of my TAMs and they work flawlessly: 32GB Transcend PSD330 2.5-inch IDE Internal SSD Solid State Disk (MLC Flash) https://www.ebay.com/itm/331796088399 https://www.ebay.com/itm/354897127472 https://www.ebay.com/itm/175766113504 Hope it helps.

One thing I'll add about ArcaneByte is that James makes absolutely beautiful hardware, across the board. I have at least one of (almost ?) everything he's made and both the aesthetic and quality of the builds are awesome. When I first got the Cameo/Aphid drive emulator, I was trying to boot LOS...

I have a couple of the ArcaneByte Cameo/Aphid drive emulators and they're fantastic. The things that swung me to also pick up an X/ProFile are: Power. The X/ProFile uses the Widget's power cable, whereas the ArcaneByte's solution needs a 5v USB plug - which you need to somehow run inside the...

What a lovely old Lisa 2/10. My experience was much the same as yours, having found a 2/10 and rehabilitating it with all of its quirks (Widget, etc). These are truly incredible old machines, and a superset of the features that would ship on the slimmed down and de-featured Macintosh a year...