>
>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
I'm aware of the tradeup. I took advantage of it too (or rather, the
company I worked for at the time did.)
That's not what I was talking about, though. They dumped remaining
units they couldn't sell. Perhaps tradeup units too.
- Bill
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