Apple Lisa Facts
Apple Lisa Facts
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Interesting Apple Lisa Facts: |
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If the Apple Lisa were to be released today at today's prices it would cost almost $25,000 US. |
LISA stood for Local Integrated System Architecture. Because of so much speculation surrounding the true meaning of the acronym, there was a joke that it stood for Let's Invent Some Acronym. Steve Jobs later said it was named after his daughter. |
Steve Jobs was forced to leave the Apple Lisa project in 1980 so he focused on the Macintosh project. |
Some believe that the Mac is a direct descendant of Apple Lisa but was not - the Macintosh XL was the final version of the Apple Lisa. |
The Apple Lisa was one of the very first personal computers released commercially to have a mouse and a GUI. The Apple Lisa's CPU was a Motorola 68000. It had a 5 MHz clock rate and 1 MB of RAM. |
The original Apple Lisa had two floppy drives for 5.25 inch disks. These disk drives were often referred to as Twiggy. |
When the Apple Lisa II was released in 1984 it cost between $3,495 and $5,495 US. It had a SONY microfloppy drive instead of the earlier Twiggy double drives. |
When the Apple Lisa II was released Apple offered to exchange all the Twiggy drives from the Apple Lisa originals for the new 3.5 inch disk drives. |
The Apple Lisa had expansion slots that made it possible to upgrade the CPU. |
The Apple Lisa is considered to be a big failure commercially for Apple. Consumers found the price to be too high and opted for the IBM PCs that were less expensive. |
When the Apple Macintosh was released in 1984 it was marketed much better than the Apple Lisa. It was much less expensive. |
In 1986 Apple made an offer to Lisa/XL owners that they could return their computers and pay $1,498 to receive a Macintosh Plus computer and a Hard Disk. The value of the new system at the time was $4,098 US. |
One of Apple Lisa's biggest consumers was NASA. NASA used LisaProject but had major problems when the Apple Lisa was discontinued as it had been used for project management. |
When Apple Lisa was released in the United States, it was only a few months later that it was released in other countries and languages including Italian, Spanish, German, French, and Scandinavian. |
Apple Lisa was finally discontinued in 1986. |
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