21 Dec
2015
21 Dec
'15
5:16 p.m.
On 21/12/2015 22:34, "Noel Chiappa" <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
I think the seller is aiming for the 'this serial number is under 32,000
therefore it was one of the first 32,000 mice made and therefore PART OF
HISTORY'
From: Adrian
Graham
Overblown salesmanship aside, technically I
suppose they're right.
Well, I don't think so. According to Wikipedia (I know, I know), the Lisa was
released on January 19, 1983, but the Xerox Star (AKA Dandelion): was introduced in 1981, almost two years before. The
Star was supposed to be
a commercial product version of the Alto, and although it had many issues, it
did have an advanced version of the graphic-based user interface that is now
universal - icons, etc, etc. And it had a mouse.
Oh I know :) I wanted a Lisa as soon as I first saw the launch issue of
Personal Computer News over here in the UK. April '83 I think it was. Took
me 17 years and I obviously had to make do with a LisaII but hey...
http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/museum/apple/lisa/index.php
(my ISP has just changed my external IP address now that they're on DOCSIS-3
so that URL might not work straight away)
--
Adrian/Witchy
Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator
Www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UK's biggest private home computer
collection?