On January 19, 1983, the first commercial personal computer from Apple was born. Ahead of its time, the Lisa featured a stout white monitor, a white keyboard, square mouse, double floppy drive — and a ...

Before there was an iPhone, iMac or Macintosh computer, Apple had Lisa. The Lisa computer — which stands for ” “Local Integrated Software Architecture” but was also named after Steve Jobs’ eldest ...

Lisa was a commercial failure upon release in 1983, but Apple and Jobs learned lessons for their next computer: the Macintosh. It’s #ThrowbackThursday, y’all, so we’re kicking off a new series of ...

I was around 10 when I used a Lisa and the first LaserWriter printer with its postscript support to create the text and graphical displays for my science fair project. It looked like something a ...

Mountain View, CA, Jan. 19, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Computer History Museum (CHM), the leading museum exploring the history of computing and its impact on the human experience, today announced ...

Apple’s legendary Lisa computer was a flop by commercial standards, but its influence on computing can’t be understated. In the 40 years after its debut, ideas from the Lisa changed our relationship ...

The Computer History Museum held an event on January 31 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Lisa computer. The event featured interviews with members of the Lisa development team, a demo of the ...

Silicon Valley has some of the most intriguing stories about the lengths founders go to achieve success, but a lesser-known story about Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, is now gaining attention. In ...

Just about everything the Mac brought to technology was already there a year before with the failed Apple Lisa, that launched on January 19, 1983. That famous venue permanently closed in 2019 — ...

The Apple Lisa was a groundbreaking machine when it launched over three decades ago in 1983. It was one of the very first commercially available computers that had a graphical user interface or GUI.

Like a magician readying his best trick, Steve Jobs waited for the houselights to dim and the crowd to quiet down. A spotlight focused on a table where a bulky shape lay hidden beneath a buff-colored ...