http://svenontech.com/2006/01/25/remembering-lisa/ The technology resource you can't resist! Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://svenontech.com/2006/01/25/remembering-lisa/comment-page-1/#comment-13575 stefan oetter Thu, 26 Jan 2006 05:20:00 +0000 http://svenontech.com/2006/01/25/remembering-lisa/#comment-13575 I remember working for an Apple dealership in 1985 and Apple had a promotion whereby you would get $1000 off the price of a "fat" Mac with the trade-in of a Lisa... Apple didn't want the Lisa back and I recall tossing many of them into the dumpster out back...boy were they heavy! I remember working for an Apple dealership in 1985 and Apple had a promotion whereby you would get $1000 off the price of a “fat” Mac with the trade-in of a Lisa…
Apple didn’t want the Lisa back and I recall tossing many of them into the dumpster out back…boy were they heavy!

]]> http://svenontech.com/2006/01/25/remembering-lisa/comment-page-1/#comment-13572 David Herren Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:45:04 +0000 http://svenontech.com/2006/01/25/remembering-lisa/#comment-13572 I worked on a few Lisas shortly after they were released. Then, in 1984 when I bought a Mac and started hitting a few BBSs (remember those?) at a screaming fast 1200 bps, the best BBS I found and which I frequented regularly was called the "JackMacAttack" in Nashville. JackMacAttack was hosted on a Lisa. Over the years the owner/operator of the BBS upgraded the Lisa to include a twiggy drive (one of the first small 3.5 inch floppies that spun the disc at a variable rate to increase the amount of data it would hold), installed a larger hard drive, and upgraded the OS and machine to what became known as the Mac XL. I worked on a few Lisas shortly after they were released. Then, in 1984 when I bought a Mac and started hitting a few BBSs (remember those?) at a screaming fast 1200 bps, the best BBS I found and which I frequented regularly was called the “JackMacAttack” in Nashville. JackMacAttack was hosted on a Lisa. Over the years the owner/operator of the BBS upgraded the Lisa to include a twiggy drive (one of the first small 3.5 inch floppies that spun the disc at a variable rate to increase the amount of data it would hold), installed a larger hard drive, and upgraded the OS and machine to what became known as the Mac XL.

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