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Computer History Museum Releases Apple Lisa Source Code on 40th Launch Anniversary
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Don't forget IE 4 on Windows 95, with its "Active Desktop". Hyperlinks everywhere, including on the now-single-click desktop icons!
Ha, exactly. I bought the original Mac (128k) in 1984 - the bundled writing software (MacWrite) could only hold 4-5 pages. Anything longer had to be written (and printed) in multiple files.
A mechanical engineering friend got hired by IBM that summer of 1984 to work on an enterprise 1 GB storage unit. He said it was the size of a small room... Can't even imagine the price tag on that.
Actually his first film was “Malibu Hot Summer”, a soft porn film released in 1981. Definitely his worst movie. He tried to buy the rights to it but they had already been sold to Troma.
Well boys, it’s time for Lisa ][. Let’s get to work on the hardware now that we have the source code… finally!
What's that beige thing with the curly cord that he holds up to his head and starts talking to? I guess it is like an Apple watch -- which I use for phone calls, but then he should have used his watch. What a stupid ad.
Remembering my Mac Plus 4MB was over $1499 plus $750 for ImageWriter $400 for my 20 MB hard drive and $800 for Quark Xpress 1.1, later got a 300 baud modem for bulletin board access.
Had to get a loan from the bank and they asked what it's for and I said a computer, they looked at me like I had a carrot coming out of my ear, they never heard of a computer loan but they gave it to me.
Had to get a loan from the bank and they asked what it's for and I said a computer, they looked at me like I had a carrot coming out of my ear, they never heard of a computer loan but they gave it to me.
I've used the minivmac for many years to be able to continue to access an app I developed in or about 1992.
Can't thank the author enough for this and highly recommend it. Works fine under Ventura 13.1
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Thanks, this is a great idea for my upcoming mini-vacation in Spring (I didn't make any plans yet). Go to NorCal, and finally get to see the Apple Mothership Campus, and then I wonder how far from Cupertino to the CHM? They are all in the area of Silicon Valley, right?
Tesla has done exactly the same thing with its cars. First there were the very expensive ones, and Tesla became a worldwide topic.
Same with Apple: I remember that here in Europe, none of my friends, nor I, could afford a Lisa from America, but everyone around me talked about it enthusiastically (unlike the authors at Macrumors nowadays, who immediately think of software problems and problems with floppy disks. Maybe we weren't that dogged).
So Lisa was just a flop in sales, but brilliant for preparation of the Apple brand.
For me personally, it was only out of this history that my first computer was an Apple desktop computer (after trying an early laptop, where the operating system DR-DOS was still read from a floppy disk).
Same with Apple: I remember that here in Europe, none of my friends, nor I, could afford a Lisa from America, but everyone around me talked about it enthusiastically (unlike the authors at Macrumors nowadays, who immediately think of software problems and problems with floppy disks. Maybe we weren't that dogged).
So Lisa was just a flop in sales, but brilliant for preparation of the Apple brand.
For me personally, it was only out of this history that my first computer was an Apple desktop computer (after trying an early laptop, where the operating system DR-DOS was still read from a floppy disk).
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An Apple Silicon version is in Beta. Thanks for the tip, it's on my waiting list.
XEROX gave it away because they were stupid and didn't even know what they had and Steve Jobs was brilliant enough to realize that the trash in their dumpster would change the world and it did.
Ahh Snow Leopard, the dream operating system. The most productive I’ve ever used. Still runs fine on my 2007 iMac. I waited many years before finally jumping to post Lion versions and went back to SL as soon as I replaced the iMac. Too bad SheepShaver cannot emulate MacOsX or can it?
As opposed to the Lisa's unplanned obsolescence? It was obsolete in less than 2 years.
It's still usable, not up to date, but usable.
If you want, might sound crazy, but you can still dev for it and release software.
That's not planned obsolescence!
Planned obsolescence is when a company build a product in a way it becomes useless on purpose and hinder the further usage of it, e.g by tying it to an AppStore and not allowing devs to release new Apps for an old product.
E.g. try to release an App for a not jailbroken iPhone 4,4S,5 and you'll face the planned obsolescence.
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