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.
-Mark
On Feb 22, 2012, at 3:38 AM, Terry Stewart wrote:
Great photo.
I wonder what happened to them all.
Terry (Tez)
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Wayne Smith <wayne.smith at charter.net>wrote:
> Cool photo of a room full of Lisa 1s at the University of Michigan -
> taken March 4, 1984.
http://tinyurl.com/6stp4hf