Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[Jeff Lemke <lemke@terra.cira.colostate.edu>]

Regnirps wrote:
> 
> Jeff Lemke <lemke@terra.cira.colostate.edu> wrote:
> 
> snip
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> >And then Apple tried the Lisa, but it was way too expensive and a bit
> >sluggish in performance.  And that was it for Apple in business, except
> >for desktop publishing.  They did find a niche there with their Macs,
> >but it really was a small niche.  It was just enough to save them, I
> >think.
> 
> >Jeff Lemke
> 
> You would have fit right in at Apple all right. The Lisa was not sluggish
> compared to anything else that came near. I remember Boeing had an Altos and a
> Lisa used for graphical presentation creation. The Lisa was bug free and easy
> to use.
> 
> Charlie Springer



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."

Jeff