The Apple Lisa changed the course of computinghistory. To mark its 40th birthday, its source code has been released for free by the Computing History Museum.
Apple computers have a reputation for being expensive, but even the most decked-out MacBook Pro has got nothing on the Apple Lisa desktop, which has just turned 40 years old. If you wanted a Lisa back in 1983, it would set you back a cool $9,995 — roughly $30,000 today.
Apple Ad"Two kinds of people..." with Kevin Kostner The CHM is also hosting a 40th birthday celebration for the Lisa at 7 p.m. PT on Tuesday, January 31. The event will feature former Apple engineers talking about their time working on the Lisa project, as well as a demonstration of a working Apple Lisa.
A brilliant flop It’s certainly true that the Apple Lisa pioneered a bunch of features we take for granted today. One of its biggest selling points was its graphical user interface , which used icons and windows to let people visually interact with their computers. This came at a time when almost every other computer relied on an opaque text-based command line that was impenetrable to all but the savviest tech wizards.
The problem, though, was that eye-watering price. Charging $10,000 meant the Lisa was aimed at businesses rather than homes, but its hardware quirks and lack of software limited its appeal even further. Just a year later, Apple launched the Macintosh — the first Mac — which contained many of the Lisa’s greatest hits for a much lower price.
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