Years ago, a friend showed up at my place with an APPLE][[ ("LISA").
While it would light, it reported some kind of malfunction (don't
remember which). He took it with him when he left, and I figured he'd
try to fix it....

The following week he again showed up, this time with only a RAM
board. He gave it to me to keep. When I asked him where the rest of
the computer was, he told me he needed the power supply for a project
and had THROWN THE REST IN A DUMPSTER. OUCH!
He saved the RAM board for me because he "thought it looked cool".

It does "look cool", but every time I see it I get a little depressed;
I should'a made him more aware of just what he had BEFORE he
cannibalized the thing...DAMN!

Here's an image of it

Just a minor detail, but the board you've shown is from an Apple ///, the succesor to the Apple ][. Both were based on the 6502 chip. The Apple Lisa was a much more powerful machine based on the 68000 chip, and with a bit-mapped display and a mouse.

Shame to hear that your friend scrapped the machine! The design of the Apple /// is interesting in that the case of the machine is one big piece of die-cast metal with a plastic lid. The metal part has fins all around it and acts as a huge heatsink, which means that no fan is required. In addition, the cursor movement keys are special, two-stage keys. If you press harder on them, the cursor auto-repeat goes faster. Remember that this machine was designed to be used from a keyboard, and had no mouse!

I have both an Apple /// and an Apple Lisa here, as well as the usual Apple ][ and early Macintosh models.

Yes. 'Seems I was confused about which project was called LISA...
(by the way...yes...APPLE /// looks better than APPLE ][[)
Thanks for the nudge.
I do remember the cast AL case and no fan. Rather heavy it was.
And speaking of nudge...that's likely all that was needed to revive
the old beast. Oh well. Live and learn.

Regards,
Brian

I had an apple III at one time - that was on odd one. - nothing like the lisa - if you would have had a lisa trashed - you would be out alot of money on the resale, those things sell for ALOT.