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From: broome@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Jonathan C. Broome)
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Subject: Need info on Lisa/Mac XL and hard disks
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Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 01:03:47 EST
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I'm presently looking at buying a Lisa / Mac XL, having found a very good
price, but have a few questions that someone may have answers for ...
There are two possible configurations that I can get, one is the straight
Lisa 2 without any hard disk, the other is the Lisa 2/5 with the 5 meg ProFile
disk.  The difference in price is less than $500, so the 2/5 looks rather
attractive, considering that all the Lisa hard disks that I've seen sell
for > $1K.  First question:  does anyone use an aftermarket hard disk on
their Lisa?  If so, whose, what kind of capacity, price, and reliability,
and can it be used with Xenix?  Meanwhile, the 2/5 in question, I am told,
is actually a Mac XL, with the "screen fix" that we've heard so much about.
I was also told that this "fix" makes it such that Xenix will not run on it.
So, second question: has anyone had any real experience in this area?  What
exactly is the "screen fix"?  I am under the impression that it is simply some
different roms to provide square pixels for the sake of Mac compatibility. 
If it really does make it impossible to run Xenix (why?), can the fix be
undone?  Third question: has anyone used any version of Xenix besides the SCO
port, and if so, any comments?  I *really* want to be able to run Xenix on the
Lisa (please, no flames about which o.s. is better, I'd like to use both!),
and any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks much...

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