[R-390] Re: Hammarlund in the Subject

[Heinz und Hannelore Breuer]

The Lisa was not an experimental model it was really sold to customers
at a prize of about $10k. I was an Apple dealer back then but we never
sold a Lisa. The Lisa faced two major hardware upgrades and a software
upgrade. It was finally renamed Macintosh XL. 
Later we got two service customers who had a Lisa. One customer used his
Lisa until his retirement about 1995. He donated us his Lisa but I gave
it away to a collector friend when I closed my company. 

The Apple II was our main produkt well into 1985. The Macintosh took
over 1986 after the introduction of the Mac Plus two years after the
first Mac was released in 1984. 

Those were the days...

Now back to Hammarlund ... oops R-390

73
Heinz DH2FA, KM5VT

 

blw wrote:
> 
> Hammarlund
> 
> > I was with Steve Jobs at the NCC (National Computer Conference) when the Xerox
> > machine was first
> > displayed with a mouse and iconic GUI.  Steve said right then it was a great
> > idea.  That led to
> > the Lisa which lead to the Mac.  I understand that the visit to Xerox was
> > after the NCC.  I have
> > almost forgotten, but I think the name of the Xerox system was "Star".
> > Correct me if I'm wrong.
> >
> > Michael
> 
> Hammarlund
> 
> Some say that the Lisa was mostly an experimental model that went into
> limited production.  I know that you had to do some upgrades on it to get it
> to run the first generation of Macintosh software due to code
> incompatibilities. Sort of like the 6 byte code incompatibility with IBM
> computers and clones, if anyone remembers that fun problem.
> 
> I can't remember the name of the Xerox system.
> 
> Barry
> 
> Hammarlund
> 
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