Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes...

>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...

    Actually it was Apple that did the renaming, the Lisa 2 was
assimilated into the Macintosh line and called "Macintosh XL".
If I'm not mistaken, they didn't change the hardware inside (or
even do as much as give it a new Apple product part number code).
There was a Mac emulation boot disk for the Lisa, kind of like
how there was an Apple II emulation boot disk for the Apple III
(Sun did some ROM and hardware modifications to make it even
more Mac compatible though, which is what your thinking of).

    Hmm, as for the Lisas burried in a landfill, didn't they gut
the machines and burry just the empty cases?

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca