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  • UNLIMITED POWER!!! LOL

  • Lol Xerox totally screwed themselves over on that one XD

  • macintosh start up sounds are sooooooo scary

  • Ah, yes, the Xerox Alistair...

  • The first computer to use a GUI was the Xerox Alto from 1976, so not all computers were just text based, unless your talking about the cheaper kinds.

  • @DYLAN102001 The Xerox Alto was never sold… Xerox had no idea what to do with 99% of the tech they invented at PARC…

  • Oh my god, this music makes it so scary :O

  • lol, unlimited expandability...try sticking in an 8GB ram in that!

  • This looks and sounds like an 80's horror movie

  • @lomomusician haha horror film?? I hardly see this is a horror film with that tiny, adorable little woman appearing in the video! She looked like an angel lol

  • so basicly, this is a walmart ad?

  • Readme:

    If your mac only supports one button,even if the mouse has millions of buttons,only one will work.

    If your mouse only has one buttons,even if your computer supports millions of buttons,only the button work.

    This is why many prefers television.

  • What's a mouse... I use a trackpad

  • the music creeps me out a bit

  • You're tearing me APART

  • Looks like a coffee machine. Wonder why nobody has invented the computer/coffee machine hybrid. I think I've found a niche.

  • first iMac 

  • It's awesome, because I live near Peoria :D

  • that was the very 1st mac and costed $10,000!!!!!!!!

  • xerox invented the gui.

  • i think ill put mac os10 on it

  • Learn your history...Xerox invented the mouse and Apple stole it. Amiga was originaly an Atari product the same ones who made the Atari Lynx. It was 10x better than a PC and the Mac but Commodore ran it into the ground. Apple survived off of 68000 and PPC CPU's until they couldn't keep up the hardware end then went to Linux based OSX and x86 chips. Microsoft never invented anything, they bought an OS and improved on it. Stole everything else. Still around due to Volume and shady tactics.

  • @kpreston69 Learn your history. Apple did not steal the mouse or the GUI. Apple was working on a GUI at the time they initiated contact with Xerox's PARC. Apple made a deal with Xerox to make engineering visits for which Xerox was allowed to buy pre-IPO Apple stock. A lot of Xerox PARC engineers went to work for Apple since Xerox was clueless on how to make a user friendly computer. Ideas are cheap. Actually making something useful with an idea is what takes innovation and dedication.

  • @kpreston69 It would have been nice if the Amiga had made it. It was quite a computer.

  • @HRHShawnPendragone You're utterly fucking bonkers. Please continue, I'm entering your comments into a text-to-speech program for the entertainment of my party guests.

  • @HRHShawnPendragone You're delusional. Shut up.

  • Wow I wonder much it would've cost.

  • @TheDecadeMoon Yeah, that's what they DON'T want you to know

  • unlimited power? i bet that box cant pump out 6.5ghz and cooled with liqued nitrogen

  • read the wiki on Lisa and I think it says there is a landfill in a desert somewhere with thousands of brand new unsold lisas. I always wanted on. But I think at the time it was $10,000. I got the 128K mac for $1800 instead. And that was with the educational discount.

  • who started using a mouse with 2 buttons? the other one is for right clicking. is it apple? NO..

  • @dx3100 That would have been Commodore with the Amiga 500 but what do I know I use a 4 button Microsoft Mouse on my Mac.

  • @Ozz1317, Wrong, The commodore 64 had 2 buttons. I'm afraid to say I think IBM (or possibly Xerox) started it.

  • @Ozz1317 Xerox created the original GUI and it used a 2 button mouse.

  • @chrisxdeboy Yea... I just hope they held onto those stocks... they would be rolling in it now....

  • @dx3100 theres still only one button on the magic mouse today!

  • damn that's a small ass screen!

  • LISA+MACINTOSH

  • This music scares me

  • I dunno which looks better. The lisa or the mac. Id say lisa cos it has TWO floppy drives!

  • @tuzathedarknight

    Oh baby, give me some of that 5 inch floppy lovin.

  • Lisa is to fat ._.

  • I hate that Apple talked about the mouse like they invented it. They didn't. idk who did though X3, I just know apple didn't.

  • @jebug29 You do realize that this is not an Apple commercial it was buy a local dealer in Peoira IL at a time no one had a computer avalible with a mouse. LIGTEN UP PEOPLE AND PAY ATTENTION.

  • @Ozz1317 I'm not talking specifically about this commercial.

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  • Thank goodness that windows got consumers away from apple.

  • @airfoemoe to bad Microsoft fucked up and failed.

  • @teamfortress3 haha fail

  • What the fuck... I rather buy myself a Windows 2.0

  • @SMGJohn, you do realize that this was 10 years before windows...

  • @Ozz1317 but during the time with DOS, and WAY before Lisa, since dos was developed on a Altair computer. I believe Microsoft helped Apple with floating-point operations...

  • @Ozz1317 but during the time with DOS, and WAY before Lisa, since dos was developed on a Altair computer. I believe Microsoft helped Apple with floating-point operations...

    Though, this had a GUI! In that time, I'd be like "WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?"

    Wouldn't you agree?

  • @Ozz1317 no it wasnt windows started in 1985 apple started at 1984

  • @Ozz1317 Reply win.

  • @Ozz1317 correction: 2. Windows 1.0 came out in 1985.

  • @Ozz1317

    This came out 2 years before Windows. Windows 1.0 was released in 1985.

  • The Lisa was first introduced on January 19, 1983 at a cost of $9,995 US ($21,693.67 in 2009 dollars).

  • @mickeydamon HOLY CRAP THAT'S A LOT! :O

  • ahahah

  • Scary music

  • not monalisa but how can a man say so long about mouse?!!LMAO

  • who is this lady in the commercial?

  • at $5999, what a steal!

  • OMFG GRAPHS ARE AWESOME!!

  • is that a mouse or a soap???

  • its scary as hell

  • So, Macs had the first mouse??

    That says it all.

  • @blobface007 And Toshiba had the first "color" screen for a laptop?! O_O

  • @blobface007 Movies have taught me that Xerox actually had the first mouse and Apple stole the idea from them.

  • im about 25 minutes away from peoria

  • When's the release date? And what will the price be?

  • It was faster than vista!!!!

  • I would like to try out this "mouse".

  • unlimited power, and a clever pointing device! man that is sexy

  • Unlimited power? That's over 9000!

  • @Kulawendin What? 9000? There's now way that can be right!

  • Hahah, remember when that kind of thing was state-of-the-art? Of course, Gas Lamps used to be state-of-the-art, then came in Edison with his electric light. :)

  • Clever pointing device indeed!! XD

  • Hello. I'm Ron Wallace. This commercial was made for my company. As silly as it seems today, it lead the way back then. Yes, we actually sold these for something more than boat anchors. It's fun now to see all the comments, from so many, and so critical. The fact is that the commercial was judged & won the top award by the local ad club. The fact is that, later, after we paved the way, we sold more Macs and made more money than you can imagine. So, silly as it may be, in the end, I can smile.

  • @aimcmc Hi Ron great to here from you! You do have to love a commercial people will watch more than 25 years after it made. The Lisa & your spot were very cutting edge you should be very proud.

  • @Ozz1317 Yes, considering it got the award from media peers, some folks recognized its value. I would have loved to get the response we get here today, then. I remember Altair and Apple II days people telling me I was nuts and no one would ever buy a computer for their home - and a mouse - you gotta be kidding - who'd want that. If folks think this is weird, someday I'll bring the really good stuff out. Got some new things happen for Peoria and worldwide. The fun is just beginning. Thanks.

  • @aimcmc

    Dear Ron,

    Get the pole out of your ass. People are having fun here. It's youtube.

    Yours Truly,

    Yobachi

  • @Yobachi2007 pardon me? 

  • @aimcmc How well did that Lisa sell, Ron?

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  • @aimcmc Those comments are why Mad Men is not set in the 80's :)

  • @aimcmc In response to the add though, I think it's really smart, very nicely done, but I think the musical score could have been better. Idk maybe it polled well with the audience of that time in market research. But other than that very smart add...

  • wallace + micro mart = walmart

  • @kabluwi No, the store was owned buy a man named Ron Wallace.

  • @Ozz1317 Dude its a joke! your such a nerd...

  • @kabluwi LOL

  • @kabluwi Actually, Walmart's founder's name is Sam Walton. Same guy that founded Sam's Club.

  • @kabluwi no shit

  • lisa its a girl's name

  • these had to cost over 9000!!!!!!!!! dollars

  • @firewall588788 maybe the size of the circutry requires it to be such a big and ugly shape, after all, they pretty much needed to stuff it with as much of the cave-man electronics as they could possibly fit or else it would be a non-functional peice of crap.

  • @firewall588788 this was made around the era were home computing was just coming around. These computers were large, but there was no such thing as a Terrabite, and Gigabites were restricted to high-end computers that took up half the room. Most of them looked retarded XD but I like the looks of the Lisa.

  • Unlimited expandability? Didn't Apple give up on the Lisa after the Macintosh came out like a year later? Unless by that they meant unlimited choice to buy whatever product Apple comes out with to make the last one obsolete. The more things change...

  • @ryfin2000

    The problem was that the Mac did most of what the Lisa did for a much lower price and the Lisa never sold well partially because it had a lot of proprietary parts and businesses don't like buying machines with a lot of proprietary parts because they get locked in to sourcing parts from one company and if the company goes under they're screwed. It was also really pricey compared to anything else you could buy at the time. A lot of people also still thought a GUI was just eye candy.

  • Didn't these cost like 10,000 dollars?

  • @ToeKnee0126 It was like 21,000 dollars.

  • @awesomenessguess11

    More like $10,000.

  • woah! a clever pointing device! wish i had one!

  • Unlimited power..

    Oh the irony..

  • @lolipopus Unlimited power is what it took to run the bloody thing :D

  • Wow, a mouse!

  • thats the future? the apple lisa? i guess people are now laughing at it and will laugh at the macbook 5 year from now

  • Reagan FTW!

  • soooo crapple invented the mouse news to me

  • @KartKing4ever

    No. Xerox was using the mouse at the PARC research facility where Apple got the idea for a home machine with a GUI. I don't think even Xerox invented it though. I think it might even slightly predate the Xeros Alto and Star machines. If you consider that it's really just a trackball turned upside down, the technology definitely predates those machines.

  • Dammit Apple the phrase "Think different" doesnt mean to be so different as to scare the shit out of people instead of doing a normal ad.

  • @MarioWars 1. this is not an Apple commercial it was for a dealer in Peoria IL and 2. it was the 80s Ronald Reagan was the President it was a scary time...

  • @Ozz1317 that just made me dislike the vid, rr was one of the best prez's ever

  • So Apple's never used 2 mouse buttons, huh?

  • @BlueFlashProductions I use a Microsoft wireless mouse on my Mac works just like on a PC but, 1 button works fine too.

  • @BlueFlashProductions it's never had a right click or a Z or was it an X?

  • @BlueFlashProductions They made the first mouse, and now they've made the best.

  • @kikodude310 I guess you've never seen Pirates of Silicon Valley, huh? And also, I like my mice with buttons. You'd think if Macs are so good for art, they'd have a mouse with a dpi button.

  • @BlueFlashProductions they have had a dpi button for about 3 years now.

  • @kikodude310 I'm guessing you don't know what dpi means. Dpi is an abbreviation for "dots per inch". My mouse can toggle between 800dpi and 1600dpi. So when its on 1600, it moves normally, but I hit the button and it slows my mouse speed down halfway for easier drawing. I'm looking at the mighty mouse and the magic mouse and see absolutely no dpi button.

  • @BlueFlashProductions Ahh, sorry I thought you meant a secondary button. The mighty mouse has buttons on the sides that you might be able to set for that function.

  • lol a clever pointing device called a mouse

  • I'll have a nightmare after seeing this ad O_O

    haha scary, that's why Apple lisa was a fail D:

    A few days ago i saw a video of a 25 years old Lisa still working :)

    Apple Lisa was an expensive, scary, but good machine =D

  • scary x.x scaryest commercial ever of computers

  • That's the scariest computer commercial I've ever seen!

  • lisa has space for two floppy disks

  • What is tha music called?

  • Man this commercial is way different in voice and music from today.

  • a brand new pointing device called a mouse XD

  • @brickman409 i dont have one of them :( i only got a track pad :L

  • @brickman409 hahaha and a CLEVER poiting device called a mouse XD

  • wow, this music is CrEepY

  • It's funny to be looking at that dinosaur, while I've been looking at a Mac mini.

  • Well, it may have been pricey, but definitly not as expensive as the other computers, such as IBM. Windows didn't even exsist yet then.

  • That mouse is squared! Who put the mouse in the decompresser again!?

  • I Find This Amusing :L

  • The Lisa was really ahead of its time. Expensive too.

  • Hooray Xerox!

  • LOL i remember this from pirates of silicon valley.

  • WhOlY **** It'S a MoUsE!!!!! WTF is a mouse? haha, its square. I love macs though...

  • 10k then, how much for it now?

  • Like the Win95 'multitasking' advert I just saw and disagreed with, this Lisa commercial is also flawed.

  • Well Master of the Obvious you do know this is a Twenty year old Local commercial, for the Peoria IL market? And at least Lisa could deal with punctuation which even Widows 7 can't.

  • a new device called a MOUSE....... omg hahaha

  • It's not exactly... good looking. Now Lisa would be good looking if she were an alienware laptop

  • Unlimited?

  • Yo dawg I heard you like Macs So I put one petal in your car

  • UNLIMITED EXPANDABILITY AND UNLIMITED POWER - What a crock of SHIT.

  • From that time, no it was not.

  • che mouse accattivante! xD

  • WoW this is Veryyyyyy old man

    hahahahahah

  • I wonder what they would say if you go back in time to the 80s with a Ultimate Gaming Rig ( Windows 7, I7 Extreme, GTX 295 X2, 8GB Ram, 2.5TB HDD, X58 motherboard etc.) and went into thier head office and played like Crysis Warhead or Farcry 2 in front of thier eyes. :D

  • They would say "I told you they would copy us" or same thing we will be say in about your rig in 20 years with only 8GB of instead of the standard 16TB. Like how can you get by with only 2.5TB that's like only 1 3D HD movie! I have defiantly learned to not use words like "unlimited" or "Never".

  • I wasnt talking about what the future would say. :P

    I mean, wouldnt the people in the 80's be amazed by the power of the Gaming Rig?

  • 'And a clever pointing device called a mouse' Freaky. Did Apple invent the mouse?

  • No I think zerox did but apple was the first to implement it.

  • its xerox dumdum and yes, xerox invented it but apple bought the idea from them for a few hundred dollars and turned it into a multi billion dollar industry

    LOL

  • The mouse was invented by Xerox

  • Yeah, and actually Lisa's operating system too! Apple just took them and made their own.

  • Awesome video. Keep on with that good work!

  • that was kinda scary

  • AAAAAAGGHHHHHH they killed it

  • Actually, as I recall, the Apple Lisa was the worst Apple Computer ever made. There were tons of them buried in an Arizona landfill (or so. Anyways, there were lots of unsold ones, so Apple buried it in a landfill)

  • I think it was a very good computer for its time and I real find it hard to believe that "Tons" were thrown out. It was never heavily mass-produced. Now if you want a bad Mac check out the 5300c Laptop made by Sony for Apple, I have one it is a piece of crape.

  • unlimited power :D yeh.. on this "pc" it will not work even 'doom" :D

  • I wonder what they would say in the 80s if you came back with a hardcore super gaming computer (i7 extreme, dual GTX 295, 8 gb ram, 2.5 tb hdd) and played crysis warhead...

  • Did that guy just say unlimited power?

  • yes he did.

  • Didn't Steve Jobs name this computer after his daughter?

  • You mean the one he claimed wasn't his and refused to pay child support on?

    Yeah.

  • Well she got a computer named after her. Come on!

    LOL

    Yeah no I don't think Steve was the best of all fathers.

  • thats the thing, bill gates ripped off the windows idea after he bought DOS for 50,000$ from one of his fellow harvard students and reselling it to IBM for 2.2 million! :D

  • He is a very good businessman.

  • what ? only quad-core

  • unlimited power, now with 10 mb of RAM

  • i want to marry that computer