22 Feb
2012
22 Feb
'12
11:55 a.m.
On 02/22/2012 10:11 AM, Mark L. Weindling wrote:
Actually, they went back to Apple. I'm sure that
there were some holdouts, but almost all of the Lisa-1s were upgraded to Lisa-2s and then
to Mac XLs, after which they fell by the wayside. By 1988 it was nearly impossible to find
a Lisa on campus.
UofM's engineering labs, of which this was one, focused primarily on Apollo
workstations during this period, starting with DN-330s and through the DN-4500s a few
years later. While there were PCs and Macs, they were considered underpowered for the
needs of the college, which was doing simulations and circuit analysis. The software and
hardware of the "consumer" equipment weren't up to their requirements.
Wonder if they wrote any custom Lisa apps to do simulations or circuit
stuff, would love it if that was available. :)