Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[wsmith@NOSPAM.ctron.com (Will Smith)]

On Wed, 15 Apr 1998 08:39:08 -0600, Jeff Lemke
<lemke@terra.cira.colostate.edu> wrote:

|>I dug out my BYTE 20 Years of personal computing issue (Sept. '95). 
|>Under "20 Spectacular Failures", page 145, is listed the Lisa, with the
|>following paragraph on it:  "With 1MB of RAM, 2 MB of ROM, a 5-MB hard
|>drive, and the first GUI ever seen on a personal computer, the Lisa was
|>a breakthrough machine in 1983.  It cost $10,000 and crawled like a
|>slug, however.  When the MacIntosh arrived in 1984 at $2495, the Lisa
|>was doomed.  In 1989, the last 2700 Lisas were buried in a Utah
|>landfill."

hehehehehe...  i seem to recall that one of my college instructors had
a Lisa...  it LOOKED like someone had rigged it to take Mac stuff
(whether they swapped the board out or if the stuff all looked alike,
i don't know, and at this point, i don't CARE)....
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William Smith
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