Artifact Details

Description

Lisa was released to the public on January 19, 1983, at a cost of $9,995. Lisa was targeted at the business market, used the powerful Motorola 68000 microprocessor, and paired with a hard drive. The Lisa’s sophisticated operating system, which allowed multiple programs to run at the same time (“multitasking”) was too powerful even for its 68000 processor, and thus ran sluggishly. The Lisa shipped with a suite of applications, including word processing and charts, bundled with the system, which discouraged third party developers from writing their own software for it. The original Lisa shipped with a floppy drive (“Twiggy”), designed in-house, that was unreliable.

Public Access to source code available at: https://info.computerhistory.org/apple-lisa-code

Date

1983-01-19

Publisher

Apple

Category

Programming/Code/Source

Credit

Gift of Apple Inc.

Lot Number

X9188.2020