A new documentary called Before Macintosh: The Apple Lisa promises to tell the story of one of Apple’s most important flops. Directed by computer historian (and Apple collector) David Greelish, the ...
The rise of personal computing in the early 1980s introduced machines that reshaped how people interacted with technology. Among them was the Apple Lisa, a product that carried major ambitions and an ...
At the time, the Apple Lisa was revolutionary. apart from the graphical user interface the on-screen cursor was moved using a mouse — concepts that would later define personal computing. Despite its ...
The decision by Apple to release to code follows its discovery by The Computer History Museum. The museum, based in Mountain View, California, passed on the code to Apple for review. As soon as Apple ...
In 1983, the Lisa was supposed to be a barnburner. Apple’s brand-new computer had a cutting edge GUI, a mouse, and power far beyond the 8-bit machines that came before. It looked like nothing else on ...
Film maker [David Greelish] wrote in to let us know about his recent documentary: Before Macintosh: The Apple Lisa. The documentary covers the life of the Apple Lisa. It starts with the genesis of the ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Apple Lisa introduced the graphic ...
In 1989, Apple made a rather unusual decision for a technology company: it buried more than 7,000 intact Apple Lisa computers in a Utah landfill. Rather than sell the machines to a distributor that ...