Apple's Biggest Flop: The Lisa

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by sbraford • 19 years ago

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chandrab• 19 years ago

Very cool....I've got an Apple Lisa-1 sitting next to my..First TRS-80 Model III, Commodore PET 2001 (8K RAM), Atari 800, Apple II+, KIM-1...I keep one Lisa at work to show the newbie programmers at work what we have today existed back in 1982. The Lisa was away head of it's time (yet a huge financial failure for Apple) - 32 bit 68000 processor (5Mhz) - 1MB RAM (Very expensive for 1982) - Virtual Memory and Multitasking OS - Integrated Applications (btw it also has cut & paste) - Screen Saver (Dimmer really) - Intelligent Power-switch (Puts all your docs away before shutting itself off) - Twin read heads on the 5.25 Floppy for redundancy and speed (but non-standard) - Diagnostics in ROM - GUI Based Operating System (Mac's QuickDraw based on Lisa) - LisaNet networking built-in

Larry Tesler et al, you did an awesome job!

Apple's Biggest Flop: The Lisa

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