Apple Lisa Handbook

It's a great read indeed. Some of the historical parts come from "West of Eden", which along with "The Little Kingdom" are well worth a read, but both are out of print. http://www.amazon.com/West-Eden-Innocence-Apple-Computer/dp/0140093729/ http://www.amazon.com/Little-Kingdom-Private-Story-Computer/dp/0688039731/ I've recently read this: http://www.amazon.com/The-Apple-Way/dp/B000JMKPE0/ The Apple Way by Jeffrey L. Cruikshank which opens up with a couple of pages about why the Lisa failed commercially. I'm not quite sure that I agree with all of the text there. Note that there isn't too much detail regarding the Lisa in this book. It's mostly about strategy. There's also a wealth of details about Lisa (and Mac) prices, hardware and software reviews and other stuff here: http://www.semaphorecorp.com/ss/toc.html This was the Semaphore Signal newsletter, which started out as a Lisa newsletter and moved on to the original Mac. (and of course my own FAQ: http://lisafaq.sunder.net - Michael's book is listed here: http://lisafaq.sunder.net/lisafaq-hs_book.html ) Some folks capitalize LISA, following the official Apple mantra, I don't - well, in some places even Apple itself uses "Lisa" and not "LISA". Yeah, it was supposed to be an acronym, but it was a tortured one at best (Local Integrated Software Architecture); if you look at the Lisa handwritten logo, the i,s, and a are lowercase, so there isn't much to the acronym except perhaps plausible deniability. :-) Michael's book does so in just the title. Sellam Ismail wrote: