5 Sep
2022
5 Sep
'22
12:49 p.m.
I played briefly with a pre-release Lisa (Berkeley Smalltalk). But then
didn't see them again. I almost bought one later as a cheaper substitute
for a Mac!
It is historically significant.
So is the 5100.
But, they are totally different categories. It's like when I traded a
Honda for a Leica.
Haven't heard from you for a while!
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com
On Mon, 5 Sep 2022, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
The Lisa is the first consumer grade GUI computer to
come to market. The
Xerox 8010 with the Star operating system preceded it by a couple years,
but that was a high-end $50,000 (in 1981 dollars) workstation with big
businesses as the target market. So it has some historical significance in
that regard.
Sellam
On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 11:50 AM Chris Zach via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
> It continues to blow my mind that the Apple Lisa is worth anything. They
> used to be sold for almost nothing as Mac XL's, and tended to be
> temperamental.
>
> So when will the Apple Newton or Mac Plus be worth anything? :-)
>
> C
>