Re: [NTLK] The Cube Is Dead!

From: Kim Howe (khowe_at_omninet.net.au)
Date: Sun Jul 08 2001 - 23:35:28 EDT


On Sunday, July 8, 2001, at 11:54 AM, Bill Davis wrote:
> Nope, it was the Lisa. I'm positive. I was reading a web site a few
> weeks ago that had scans of the articles from the paper of the city where
> they dumped 'em about the dumping. For tax reasons, it was easier/cheaper
> for apple to landfill 'em than to donate 'em.
>

Almost. They did a big trade up program because they wanted to take them
out of the support loop. They offered a quite generous trade up from Lisa
to Mac Plus with Hard Disk 20, which included a data migration. (I know, I
got contracted to do some of the migrations.) It was quite sad really, the
Lisa has a lot in common with the Newton, it was a machine far ahead of its
time. By the way, the Lisa was significantly superior to early Macs.
(Multitasking OS, Document Centred OS, Hard Drives, Larger Screen etc.)

Kim Howe
khowe_at_omninet.net.au

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