Chris,
Then there was the
68000 based lab computer (O so you didn't know IBM
used the 68k!). Also about 10 grand IIRC.
You are referring to the IBM PC/9000 system.
BYTE magazine had a very good article about this long ago, mid 1980s I
believe. Seemed like a very good machine but with a very
Craig
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From: Anthony Moss [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LisaList lisalist@mail.maclaunch.com
Subject: Re: Alice
Date: Wed, Nov 23, 2005, 6:59 AM
Shirl wrote:
Apple's first Lisa game was most likely the MAZE program written by Steve
Capps, the author of the ALICE game. I recall reading a ST. MAC
Hello Helmut,
There is no book or service web site as far as I know.
You are correct that you need an Apple III and a special ProFile controller
board processor to format a ProFile hard drive. The same applies also to the
Widget drive in the Lisa.
There is service information available to do
Hi
Does anyone have Lisa Office System source listings?
I'm trying to find the source listing to such programs as the Lisa Desktop
Manager (Lisa Finder in Mac parlance) or any of the Lisa applications such
as LisaWrite.
Paper listings are fine. I just want to see how these programs were built
Steve asked ...
Why has the Lisa team remained silent? Isn't there a book here? I'd
personally love to have all the anecdotes and the like concerning the
Lisa's development to read. There's a little bit about it on the Mac
Folklore site, but everything is so Mac-centric. It would be
For a great discussion of the development of the Lisa computer's user
interface see the following web site which has a transcript of a
presentation by one of the Lisa's creators, Larry Tesler.
Origins of the Apple Human Interface
Larry Tesler
Chris Espinosa
Oct. 28, 1997
And then it said, The software is integrated through a powerful and simple
user interface. And it doesn't say it here, but John Couch, who was in
charge of the Lisa project, did a sort of Kennedy
we're-going-to-send-a-man-to-the-moon-and-bring-him-back thing; he said All
I want is, I want to be
Now, we talked about testing. We said that the design's already based on
studies of user reactions to various models; as you saw, we did three or
four hours of testing. [Laughter] And we're going to do more testing, and
avoid any glaring design flaws. I was happy that that was put in, because
Those of you who know the Xerox Star know that the Xerox Star had that
feature. Those of us who were from Xerox were under a confidentiality
agreement, that we weren't allowed to tell the other Apple people about the
Star. And so, as you go through this, you'll sometimes find that things seem
We had active folders, so we had to have passive folders; the folder that
wasn't active was passive. Now look at the bottom. Who has ever seen Mac
OS8? And when you drag a window to the bottom of the screen it just kind of
pops, and becomes just a tab, and then you can click it and it will slide
But, we started. This motivated those of us who decided we had to do this
the right way to actually run more user tests. Because we thought maybe we
could overwhelm them with facts, and that will overcome this reliance on
votes of committees. So, Chris Doerr, Wallace Judd -- I think Wallace maybe
All right. Now it's still 1981, I should mention that the Xerox Star was
announced at NCC or something -- National Computer Conference, I think in
June of '81. Some Lisa people flew out there, got a look at it. Bill
Atkinson went, I believe, and Steve Jobs went, or maybe he sent Bill and
didn't
I remember very, very, very clearly that one of the massive controversies
around the development for the Macintosh, circa 1982-1983, was developers
would come up to us and say, You know, if you make the user interface
consistent, and if you put all that software in ROM that makes it -- you
know,
http://www.computerhistory.org/events/lectures/appleint_10281997/appleint_xs
cript.shtml
Origins of the Apple Human Interface
Larry Tesler
Chris Espinosa
5:30 PM, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 1997
Computer Museum History Center
Building 126
Moffett Field
Mountain View, CA 94035
This is a verbatim
Okay, so let's start at the beginning. I started at Apple on July 17th,
1980, and I just left there a few months ago. I was there for 17 years. This
memo was written on July 18, 1980, so one thing I discovered when I left the
big Xerox Corporation and went to this little Apple startup, was that
time to go through my papers and find out
greetings TOM from Bavaria
more humour ? Check this: www.deschler-web.de/Bilder/gaids.jpg
In a world without walls or fences, who needs windows or gates?
Am 09.01.2005 um 08:08 schrieb Shirl:
...and he [Bill Gates / Microsfot] needed several
Marcin,
I did not research IBM's GUI development in as much detail as I would
love to, but I think it all happened later. First OS/2 1.1 with GUI
(joint creation of Microsoft and IBM) was released as late as in 1988.
My undrstanding is IBM investigated an icon-based GUI _before_ there was a
Marcin,
The field of GUI design seems to be full of creativie copying and
alterations ans originality. Many many many people are involved in this area
and they learn from each other. At least that is my impression.
I think this behavior is very good since it provides innovations which
hopefully
Marcin
I have around a 100 screen shots on paper of LisaGuide in action. I made
these when the Lisa debuted so I would have a paper copy of how to use the
Lisa user interface.
I will scan this document for you so you can have for your UI web site.
- David Craig
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From: Marcin Wichary
Macmoni:
There have been some developer systems, too.
These were not available for custom users, but apple supported selected
developers with a (or even several) Lisas and software.
You are correct. Apple did provide pre-release versions of Lisa software to
selected individuals outside of
Hi
Q: Can the Lisa 2's external RCA video connector be used to record video
output on a NTSC video camera?
I want to make a pristine movie of my Lisa working which includes the
startup, booting, Lisa Office System, Lisa Workshop, and MacWorks. I want
clear and stable video images, no interlace
Jason,
I have a sick 2/10. When I push the power button, there is a 'whump' from
the speaker, the diskette drive motor spins a little, and that's is. No
lights, CRT activity, nothing.
Seems like others say this is a power supply problem or an over-current
problem.
In case the schematic for
Stephen,
I'm really looking for a working widget drive or someone who can test
out a widget drive
and possibly even low level format it
Try the following person who may be able to fix Lisa hard drives:
JOHN WOODALL
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
My understanding of Widget hard drive low-level
Mike
Does anyone know of any more sources I could
try for a Lisa PSU [power supply unit] ?
For Lisa parts you could try:
John Woodall
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
He repairs and sells Lisas and knows quite a bit about them.
I am suprised that Sun Remarketing still has any Lisas or parts to
Chris
How about trying the LISA TEST diskette to see if this will format the
ProFile drive attached to your parallel card. Believe there is a repair or
format utility in Lisa Test.
- David Craig
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