Apple Lisa

Apple Lisa was the forerunner of the Apple Macintosh and was from January 1983 to 1984 on the market. Lisa was the first PC over a mouse and an operating system with graphic user surface ordered.

As processor Motorola 68000 with 5 MHz and 16-Bit-Datenbus was used. 512 KB RAM were up-soldered on the motherboard, while the user could rig the computer on maximally 1 MT RAM.

The name of the Lisa sits down together from the abbreviation of "“local Integrated software Architecture"”, however Apple Lisa were designated after Steve job daughter.

As floppy disk drives two 5.25-Zoll-Laufwerke with in each case 871 KB capacity were present. An external non removable disk with a maximum size of 10 MT could be re-tooled optionally.

As operating system Lisa OS was used.

Apple Lisa was very expensive with an entrance price of 9995 US Dollar (at that time 30,000 DM) and did not sell themselves not very well. Remainder copies were continued to sell technically after the introduction of the Macintosh developed under the name Macintosh XL.

2700 unsalable Apple Lisa were simply buried on a property in the US Federal State Utah (source: Mirror-on-line).

Applications

The user surface was called Lisa Shell and had large symbols, which are to represent a cleared up desk.

Six applications of offices were provided: LisaCalc, LisaGraph, LisaDraw, LisaWrite, LisaProject and LisaList. LisaTerminal cost 850 DM specially. As additional programming languages there was to BASIC, COBOL and Pascal.

Further process

Despite the good equipment the computer was not successful. There was no Farbgrafik and no compatibility to other Apple computers. The successor Lisa 2 (1984) at the beginning of of 1985 (after introduction also shoe cardboard of the small Macintosh mentioned) renamed in Macintosh XL.

Literature

Apple - strictly confidential (ISBN 3-907100-12-3)

Related links

• http://www.weller.to/rub/sto/sto-gf-lisa.htm - empiric report from October 1983
• http://www.aci.com.pl/mwichary/guidebook/articles/thelisacomputersystem - articles from byte
• http://www.aci.com.pl/mwichary/guidebook/articles/lisainterview - interview to Apple the Lisa in byte
• - Apple Lisa 2/10 in the home computer museum
• http://www.apple-history.com/Lisa/Lisa_2/Mac_XL - description of the individual devices
• http://www.whoopis.com/lisa/lisatech/index.html - description of all technical details (EN)

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