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Apple Lisa's 40th Celebrated at the Verge
1 point by retrocryptid on April 18, 2023 | hide | past | favorite

  I noticed people talking about the Apple Lisa more than normal
  the last couple weeks.  Part of it may be that the Computer
  History Museum and The Verge are pushing out a fair bit of
  Lisa related content to celebrate the it's 40th anniversary,
  which happened a few months ago.
  
  Various people have posted links to individual stories here on
  HN, but I figured I would put them together in a single post
  so you can get your Lisa fix in one place:

  ** The Verge is partnering with the Computer History Museum to
     explore the past and future of tech

     https://www.theverge.com/23560576/apple-lisa-ethernet-verge-computer-history-museum

     Here's where The Verge talks about why there's so much Lisa
     content on their page: the Lisa's 40th anniversary (and the
     50th anniversary of Ethernet.)  The CHM hosted a panel
     discussion with several of the original team members, and
     I'm sure it was recorded for posterity, but this page only
     has a link to a page with a link to a Zoom session (not the
     archive of the event.)  But hopefully it will eventually
     surface.

     There's also links to various bits of early Apple software
     for digital archeologists.

  ** Apple Lisa: the "OK" Computer

     https://www.theverge.com/c/23570610/apple-lisa-computer-legacy

     I like this the best of The Verge articles.  Despite some
     kerning issues, I appreciate the design and the content
     builds on previous videos and articles.  Worth a read if
     you're hip to the history of design.

  ** Lisa's Family Photos

     https://www.theverge.com/c/2023/2/3/23578172/lisas-family-photos

     Aside from being a talented software developer, Bill
     Atkisson is a very good photographer.  Perhaps it was the
     photographer's sensibilities that encouraged him to record
     the progress of the Lisa's software and interface design
     by snapping polaroids along the way.

     Andy Herzfeld has a slightly different narrative using the
     same photos at folklore.org:

     https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Busy_Being_Born.txt

  ** The Apple Lisa was a design revolution -- and it still
     feels like one today

     https://www.theverge.com/23669728/apple-lisa-macintosh-ui-design-history

     Part of the "You, Me and UI" series on The Verge, this post
     introduces the "Inside the Flop that Changed Apple Forever"
     video.  Personally I would have thought that was the VLC,
     but nobody asked me.  I have a few minor nits with the
     video, technical inaccuracies that probably crept in due to
     time.  But it's an interesting video and reading the Lisa's
     wikipedia page (or folklore.org) will clarify points that
     were somewhat muddied in the video.

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lisa


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