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What does it have to do with my Lisa2 computers?
Please let me explain:
60+ year old No. 3985 is not is in some museum, she is still running on the rails today right along side of the more "modern" trains. She can keep up with the best of them, and no-one ever has to make excuses for her age. She draws a crowd were ever she goes. Just like my Lisa2 computers!
Just like old No. 3985, my 28 year old Lisa2 computer is not a museum piece. Lisa can run with the best of them, straight down the information super highway, the internet. She is strong, fast, connected, and still very useful today. As proof that she is so strong, she can host this web-site.
This is what my website will be about. If you came here looking for boring, useless information on stuff like twiggy and widget drives or the Lisa office you came to the wrong place and you are missing the point! Apple saw Lisa as the future of personal computers, let her show it to you.
Happy BirthDay Lisa! (Born 1-19-1983)
28 Years ago, Apple created Lisa to be the computer of the future, yet all the hype and Lisa web-sites around are stuck in the past. I hope to change that. With all the hype about the mouse and the GUI, two of the most important points of her design seem to be always forgotten:
1. She was designed to run multiple operating systems, Apple knew that the LisaOS may not be popular in 2011, so they left the door open for her to run newer OS's (like MacOS).
2. She was made to be hardware expandable: memory upgrades, additional ports, hard disks, and 3 expansion slots (with great ZIF connectors).
I use my Lisa2 computers almost daily, doing the same sort of things you would do with a modern PC.
- She prints to a Postscript Laser Printer
- She is connected to and shares files with Ethernet LAN with both Macs and PC's
- She is connected to the Internet.
- She can run apps like: MS Word, Excel & Lotus 123, PageMaker & Quark Express, FileMaker Pro & FoxBase, Email, Browsers, and Fetch.
- She supports large SCSI hard drives, Scanners & Video Capture, and even CD Rom drives.
- She also makes a great web server and is hosts this site! (at least most of the time)
If your have any other inquires please e-mail me at:
Source : http://web.archive.org/web/201107132128 ... /Main.html
site capture: July 13, 2011
Hear the Lisa Office System 1.0 mount a Twiggy diskette! (.au format, 11025 Hz, 8-bit ISDN u-law, mono)
http://web.archive.org/web/199902200744 ... /twiggy.au
Jahgoveg, subtly is not your strong point then.
