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Apple Lisa

Apple Macintosh · 1983

The first commercial computer with a graphical interface, a mouse and protected memory, and a spectacular failure at ten thousand dollars. Almost all unsold stock was buried in a Utah landfill, which is why survivors are among the most valuable machines in computing. Its Twiggy drives were replaced by Sony 3.5-inch units on the Lisa 2, and its ideas went straight into the Macintosh that killed it.

As catalogued

Maker
Apple
CPU
Motorola 68000-5
Memory
1MiB, 2MiB
Styles
Lisa 1 (Twiggy drives), Lisa 2, Lisa 2/10 (Macintosh XL)
Regions
US, Europe, Japan
Chassis
all-in-one with a 12-inch mono screen and twin Twiggy drives
OS
Lisa Office System

Chips

5
CPU
Motorola MC68000, Motorola MC68020, Motorola MC68030
ROM
Lisa boot ROM
Disk controller
Apple IWM, Twiggy controller
VIA
Synertek SY6522, Rockwell R6522
Serial
Zilog Z8530, AMD Am8530

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