Yes, Apple did bury thousands of Lisa's as a tax write-off. If
they'd given them away it would have cost Apple more money than
burying them and getting the tax benefit.
And no, people didn't laugh at them, they lusted after them - but
they cost $10,000 a pop so Apple didn't sell as many as they hoped
hence the burial - it was only when the Mac 128k came out that they
could get a subset of what the Lisa could do on a tiny screen and
only with the release of the Mac II that a lot of other Lisa
technologies like the big screen, the power-on button on the keyboard
etc became more widely available.
-Mart
At 10:39 PM +0800 16/10/03, Murdoch Allen wrote:
on 16/10/03 7:55 PM, Christian Kotz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is this statement I located true?
in 1989 Apple buried thousands of Lisa's in landfill. Lisa was gone.
>
> Sounds a bit nasty. Anyone planning a excavation soon? if this is
true and Apple didn't like them then why is everyone after one?
> Regards Christian
>
probably because they were like the P76 everyone laughed at them when they
first came out but now their worth their weight in gold
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