Today, it is mostly considered as a precursor to Mac. While that is true, it doesn’t come close to doing this computer justice. Development of the Lisa began in 1978, just one year after the Apple II ...

[Deater], along with a skilled team, produced this Apple ... cycle-exact fashion. This is necessary to achieve the mode-switching effects and to make the most of the limited resources of the Apple II.

with their Alto and Star workstations were the initial innovators of the Graphical User Interface (GUI), but the Apple Lisa stands as the clear foundation for what we all use today -- Macintosh ...