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 ...

The Computer History Museum located in Mountain View, California, today released the Apple Lisa source code, including its system and applications software. Today happens to be the 40th anniversary of ...

Legend has it that in 1989, 2,700 Apple Lisa computers were buried in a landfill in Logan, Utah. The Lisa was an infamous failure: though it was one of the world’s first personal computers to sport a ...

The Computer History Museum (CHM), the museum that explores the history of computing and its impact on the human experience, today announced the public release and long-term preservation of the source ...

This story was produced as part of The Verge’s partnership with the Computer History Museum to explore the past and future of tech. Located in Mountain View, California, CHM does extensive work in ...

The Lisa personal computer was unveiled by Apple Computer on this day in 1983. Lisa is one of the first PCs to employ a graphical user interface (GUI) and a mouse, two innovative features at the time.

Forty years ago, on January 19th of 1983, Apple released the Lisa, which was in many ways a revolutionary system. On January 19th of 2023, to celebrate the system’s 40th birthday, the Computer History ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. But the landfill held a piece of a puzzle that had nagged at us for months: the fate of the Lisa, Apple’s most ...

I'm speculating, but comparing this to the ARM article, I'm wondering if back in '82-'83 people hadn't really felt what Moore's Law would really do - so downsizing the software to the hardware seemed ...