kids bring laptops to class?

MacTech92
Wed, 05 Apr 2006 23:45:19 +0000

I actually have a Lisa! It’s 22 years old and has the 10MB internal hard drive option installed. Still works great after all of these years. I keep it in the original box with the original manuals and disks.

Not only could it do spreadsheet and database, but also drawing, painting, communications, word processing, and graphing…all part of the Lisa 7/7 System, which was like Microsoft Office. It was pretty advanced–all mouse-based, the word processor had a spell check built in, printing was easy…as far as interface goes, think Mac OS X but much earlier.

I took this to a classic computer show in 2002 and everyone was amazed at how advanced it was for its age. However, the Macintosh did almost as much and was a fourth of the cost. Guess who won.

BTW: Lisa is supposedly named after Steve Jobs’ daughter born out of wedlock in the late 1970s. Some say it stands for “Local Integrated Software Architecture” but that sounds sort of made-up at the last second to me…