On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Witchy wrote:
> "Apple planned to sell around 10,000 Lisas in the last half of 1983 and
> 40,000 Lisa in 1984. In retrospect, Apple was able to sell around 80,000
> Lisas during its 18 month life. On the average Apple sold 4,500 Lisas a
> month or 13,000 Lisa a quarter, figures which were very close to Apple's
> initial Lisa sales projections (I believe Apple's sales were less than
> expected in the first months after the Lisa's introduction, but sales picked
> up near the end of the Lisa's life)."
>
> This could mean, of course, that he's talking about the entire Lisa run
> including both Lisa 1 and Lisa 2. I'll scour the rest of the stuff I've got
> once I get my Mac G3 up and running again so I can read the CDs properly!
I certainly believe this is the case. And I would imagine initial Lisa
sales (of the original machine) were well under 10,000 units. Perhaps as
low as 1,000 units.
> > displaying error windows :( By the end of the VCF it had died, and I
> > haven't had a chance to figure out what happened. My guess is that the
> > power supply went out.
>
> Nightmare!
Not really. I just need to swap power supplies to see if that is in fact
the problem, then let Tony figure out what's wrong with the bad one ;)
The Lisa is the ultimate module swapping computer.
I hope it is the PSU. I can't think of what else it might be. The weird
thing is that the power switch lamp comes on but nothing else does.
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