On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Witchy wrote:
"Apple planned to sell around 10,000 Lisas in the
last half of 1983 and
40,000 Lisa in 1984. In retrospect, Apple was able to sell around 80,000
Lisas during its 18 month life. On the average Apple sold 4,500 Lisas a
month or 13,000 Lisa a quarter, figures which were very close to Apple's
initial Lisa sales projections (I believe Apple's sales were less than
expected in the first months after the Lisa's introduction, but sales picked
up near the end of the Lisa's life)."
This could mean, of course, that he's talking about the entire Lisa run
including both Lisa 1 and Lisa 2. I'll scour the rest of the stuff I've got
once I get my Mac G3 up and running again so I can read the CDs properly!
I certainly believe this is the case. And I would imagine initial Lisa
sales (of the original machine) were well under 10,000 units. Perhaps as
low as 1,000 units.
displaying
error windows :( By the end of the VCF it had died, and I
haven't had a chance to figure out what happened. My guess is that the
power supply went out.
Nightmare!
Not really. I just need to swap power supplies to see if that is in fact
the problem, then let Tony figure out what's wrong with the bad one ;)
The Lisa is the ultimate module swapping computer.
I hope it is the PSU. I can't think of what else it might be. The weird
thing is that the power switch lamp comes on but nothing else does.
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