Re: Lisa help needed!!!!

[Jim Owens <jow@helix.nih.gov>]

In article <2b0va6$1mu@nigel.msen.com> Steve Dagley, shd@msen.com writes:
>I don't know if the smiley meant you were kidding or not but the Lisa
>was never known as the Apple ///.  The /// was Apple's attempt to turn
>the ][ into a serious business machine and might have had a chance if
>they didn't have a problem with the first machines (they used a new
>socket design for automated manufacturing that caused chips to pop out
>when they got hot - I believe all such units were replaced with new
>machines) and Big Blue decided to enter the PC market at the same time.

In article <1993Nov4.214310.25691@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> Mark Manning/Metrica,
mark@drax.JSC.NASA.GOV writes:
>No, the smiley didn't mean I was kidding.  We used to call the
>/// and Lisas the same thing because (to us at the time) they
>were so similar in appearance.  (ie: Big, bulky, and looked kind-of
>the same.)  Oh well, what can I say?  A misguided youth.  ;)

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the Lisa reappear as the
MacLX?

Jim Owens