Re: The Lisa (was: The DOS 3.3 SYS.COM Bug Hunt)

Stefan Ram <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote or quoted:

Soon thereafter, Apple was ballyhooing the Mac so I borrowed a Mac for
a week, then went into the Apple Store and had a look:
Me: So, how do you program it?

>
 IIRC at one point in time around 1981, the answer was:
>
 You buy a Lisa. The "Lisa Workshop" is the development system
 for the Mac.

My friend David Jacobs was so enthused about the Mac and how wonderful it
was going to be when it came out, because it would be a Lisa at a reasonable
price for anyone.

But when it actually arrived, it wasn't anything like a Lisa, and it was
designed to be an appliance.  He and I didn't want an appliance.  I'm not
speaking out against appliances because there is certainly a need for them.

And.... one of the answers to "how do you program it?" is "you use Hypercard."
Likely the salesman didn't really know much about it, but that's typical
of salesmen.  One month they are selling furniture, the next they are
selling IBM mainframes, the month afterward they are selling wholesale
groceries.  That's the sales business.
--scott

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