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From: Doug Yowza <yowza_at_yowza.com>
Date: Thu Jun 4 20:30:28 1998

On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Greg Troutman wrote:

> Michael Sheflin wrote:
> >
> > do any of you have a Lisa, if so, I'll pay $100 or less.
>
> Good luck! One recently went for $1,350.00 at eBay.

And that was for a Lisa 2. I don't get it. The Lisa 2 has little
historical significance, and nobody I know feels any nostalgia towards
one. Here's what Newsbytes had to say about it:

<<
1985 May 07 (NB) -- Apple has kicked the Mac XL out of the house,
convinced its sex-changed offspring is a dud. Apple will halt production
of the XL (formerly the Lisa) "this summer", marking the second major
failure in a year in the product's two year history according to InfoCorp.
Compare that to the investment of $70 million developing the machine. Sad,
but true. Savvy buyers quickly noticed the high price, slow speed and lack
of software as the Lisa's biggest drawbacks. Meanwhile Apple has also
revealed that "a period of slower sales" is ahead. Advertising budgets are
being cut as are workers. 25 people in a Garden Grove, California
manufacturing plant lost their jobs in March. Another 50 will go by August
1 from Irvine, California as Apple consolidates West Coast operations in
Cupertino.
>>

BTW, I just picked up a coffee-table book called "Apple Design" which
shows a lot of pretty pictures of Apples and Apple prototypes. The Lisa
appears to be the only machine whose product name matched its project
name. Apple seemed to be into girl's names at the time. The Apple ///
was developed under the project name "Sara." Who was Lisa named after,
anybody know?

-- Doug
Received on Thu Jun 04 1998 - 20:30:28 BST