Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

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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."

Many more Lisas were sold to Sun Remarketing where they package
it with Mac emulation and called it the Macintosh XL...

The Lisa might have crawled like a slug, but so did anything IBM
came out with at the time.