You are rich and could afford the $10,000 price for an Apple Lisa and now you want to know what you can do with it... thank you for your money... but you can't do jack shit
@BitConfig Hi Bit - I'm glad you are enjoying the videos. Yes, Lisa's pads -- and to stop the Lisa from doing something, you press 'command-period' -- yes, Lisa stops when she has her period.
I am mainly Windows user, although I like Macs but don't own any because of cost of hardware and gaming support in the OS. It is so funny watching all of your latest vids and then seeing you when you were so much younger. You wouldn't be able to tell the difference if you closed your eyes and did an audio comparison lol. The part of the machine that also impressed me was the opening of window animation, very impressive for it's time. Love watching your videos, very entertaining!
Wow, Alfred, I thought I was a legit Mac old-timer, but you have me beat hands down. Do you happen to still own a Lisa? Those things are worth a fortune today. I remember reading in one of the Mac magazines that thousands of Lisa computers had been destroyed by Apple after the Mac gained success. I remember seeing in the back of the same mags a company that sold Lisa that were reconfigured to be more powerful. I wish I would have bought one, they were cheap. Thanks so much for this!
I got in the mindset of 1984 and the things you were doing we're actually intriguing. There's some things on there that are simpler than modern computers. Well done
@zxhenrikxz I have to tell you, coming from 'green letters on a black screen', when I first saw this system, I crapped my pants. For real. What a blow away. I was saying "Alien technology. This is the stuff we got from the downed spacecraft from Roswell." Actually, no. Apple was 'inspired' by Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) who screwed up (due to Xerox corporate big shots) in not refining, packaging and releasing this incredible technology.
@daylenclawproduction With regard to your question "Did the intro have to be 5 min long?" - at the time of upload, yes, as I was speaking, personally, to my initial subscriber base of 50 or so people. Once someone form Japan posted it on DIGG and it made the front page, obviously not, as that intro was not intended for 'everyone else.' Quite frankly, I state it very clearly in the text to skip the first 5 minutes -- and now I'm telling you, personally. It is what it is, and it remains as so.
Something to see only from outside and to build their own version, there is something else than to steal it, especially when after 10 years no major computer manufacturer used the Xerox technology. Yes, 10 years lay between.
Im actually impressed :) i mean that made work faster and efficient but back then a computer was for efficiency in the workplace, later on there was the Gaming Computer or Home Computer... Oh gosh #_# (overwhelmed)
Thanks for taking us back in time. You did a great job back then explaining things (common place today, i.e. Cut and Paste) that were never seen before that would go on to change the way we use computers. I think we take a lot for granted these days.
Wow I remember back then there was a huge tensions within apple over the Mac Vs. Lisa. This lead to Jobs being fired by the board from Apple over this.
@bryonlape It was way too expensive. It was $10,000 back then, a price you would pay for a nice car. (Back then, a Nissan Sentra was $4949, I recall.) To make a long story short, most of the unsold Lisas were sent to a landfill.
the Lisa was the very FIRST Product that Apple came out with after they STOLE the Next Generation Graphical User Interface Technology from Engineers at Xerox because when it was presented to senior production & design people at Xerox they thought it was way over the top...they really weren't looking for anything that required anywhere near that much input from the user, they wanted something a lot more simple...& "The Steve's" (Jobs & Woz from Apple) AND Bill Gates with Paul Allen did it too...
@IMaDEM0N Indeed - the concept was gotten when they did the walk through of PARC; of course, the actual code base was developed by Apple, with the secret being the rudimentary Quickdraw routines that made the magic on the screen 'work' as well as it did -- with a 6 mhz processor. Amazing. And that's the story....
@IMaDEM0N Xerox really "blew it", as they invented quite a bit of the core technology; reference the book "Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, then Ignored, the First Personal Computer "
@IMaDEM0N I wouldn't call licensing Xerox patents by allowing Xerox to purchase Apple stock at a favorable rate exactly stealing. Haven't found the exact sum agreed upon by googling, but do consider that Xerox at this point was making several times what Apple did simply peddling copy toner and support contracts for their photocopiers. Basically, the Xerox PARC engineers had developed the model and tools for a paperless office to a photocopy company, guess how much interest they had in selling it
@IMaDEM0N Oh, for heaven's sake. It wasn't STOLEN from Xerox. The top executives at Xerox basically GAVE Apple the tech, because they didn't want it anyway.
@onemidnightgone This is so funny... because I JUST saw THE ROOM for the first time only a few days ago, and I saw your comment, and I am absolutely laughing my ass off, even despite the stock market dump of today. Almost makes me want to film a parody with the LISA computer. LOL! Though my acting will never be as good as Tommy Wiseau.
Nice blast from the past, Al... The LISA must've definitely been a huge step in technology back then, and probably was responsible for many GUI advances such as those we see today, be it multiple windows and those applications. Must definitely be an antique nowadays.
@Commentator9000 Correct. Apple was inspired by what they saw with their tour of the Palo Alto Research Center. Apple took it a step further, and brought it to widespread market.
@Commentator9000 Neither the Xerox Star or the Lisa was considered a 'home' computer, unless you think home budgets for computers in the early 80's exceeded $10k. And I can assure you, they didn't.
Its amazing for the applications we take for granted today. A clock application was considered a software application and system "feature" back then. Now that is an afterthought. Thanks for taking us back in time!
It's truly amazing how far computing has come in twenty years... Just opening the calculator or clock took several seconds. Now we just take instant loading of simple programs such as that for granted. This thing had only 1MB of RAM, as compared to the 4-8GB that come standard on most computers now. Lisa had a 5MB external hard drive, as compared to the 500GB+ standard on computers today.
Simply put, it's just amazing how fast technology advances and changes.
Thanks for sharing - I was expecting bandages on your face. All these vintage tech shows are so awkward. The host usually doesn't know anything and goes "...so show us some thing interesting" an the guest usually obeys. Its funny she asked you about the hardware.
really incredible to think how advanced that machine was for 1984, I'm guessing that the Lisa system was one of the major stepping stones from the old Command line interface to the modern day GUI.
terrible ram! how much ram did the lisa have? i said terrible because EVERYTHING TOOK SO LONG TO LOAD if i was even born in that age i would just die of impatience
@muhammadsshahab no lets show them a server multi processor with 4 socket 4x processor amd phenom II 8 core 3ghz 12 mb of cache each 64gb of ram with 5x 1 TB hdd with 64 mb of cache each hdd in raid they would badtrip
I'm in my 20s and I'm shocked by some of these responses...I remember being excited by SoundBlaster and when we first got a mouse...I remember when my dad bought Sony Laser Library for our old CompuAdd...it cost 1,000 dollars for an external 2x CD-ROM drive and a few programs like Compton's Encyclopedia 1991 and it was amazing back then. Those days were much more exciting for computers than it is now. The Apple Lisa is more interesting than my new iPhone IMO.
@jessinerr i know the feeling,i do remember that my first major upgrade was a mouse and the second a hdd...and my first ever virus!i remember finding it hilarius (i was pretty young then) that the computer could get ill.I love the new technologies but nowdays its harder for companies to reinvent themselves and create completely new and unexpected products ,for example dos-shell....loved that interface :D
My mom has been working with computers for years and still doesn't know what a hard disk is, but you did a good job of explaining where it is for the people in 1984 who'd NEVER used one.
At about 8:00 you accidentally open a document (stationary?) rather than moving it on the desktop. I bet at the time you were hoping she wouldn't notice (which I don't think she did).
Has anyone here seen Pirates Of Silicon Valley? If Bill Gates hadn't done what he did, we'd all be pretty much stuck spending 1000 dollars or more for a computer and they'd only be available to a smaller portion of people who can afford them. So that would mean that technology wouldn't have advanced as quickly as it did now. Sure, mac may have better equipment, but that doesn't matter if only a small population can afford it.
That was so cool. Feels a bit ironic to be watching a video like that on an iPad. I like to imagine what it would be like if you took today's technology, like an iPhone, back into the past.
@schneibgamer1 The LiSA was about $10,000, due to having a full MEGABYTE of RAM, which cost a fortune back then! the Mac 128K come in at a more affordable price. It took YEARS before the Mac was able to do what the LISA did, from an OS standpoint. Do note that the LISA was the development system for the Mac. So, if you watned to write Mac software, you had to buy a LISA, code on that, and then compile for the Mac.
@adiblasi Thanks for the great lesson on computing history, that was really fascinating. A bit OP but you still look pretty good after all this years, you barely changed since that video.
10:11 this really is amazing, the fact that every application and directory can be seen parallelly makes it so much easier to use than a command line.
"the most inovative thing on lisa is the mouse" and "these pictures are called icons"... yust by waching this footage you reallize how much the technology has changed our everyday life, and what kind of technology we take for granted... i love this, just see when you open the calculator, it takes a moment, now we can open pictures that is gigs and gigs of bytes big, in a second, and with the lightpeak coming out we can transfer videos, large videofiles in high cuality, in a second to.
@zaq4267 Hi Zaq -- ahh the TRS-80 -- another breakthrough system. I remember Tandy sold high end systems that actually ran under SCO Xenix, and you could drop two additional terminals -- imagine that -- a 3 user business class system, all the way back then! Cool stuff!!
@P0werlinX Back in the day, before I referred to is as 'an upside down track ball', I used to say "it's like a pack of cigarettes with a wire and a ball, and the computer can sense it's motion on the desk." Imagine that!!
This is just amazing... It's practicly windows & word in 1983... The Computer does exactly what we need it to do in resonable time and it's very easy to use....
And keeping in mind that it had quite a "stone age" processor comparing to the 10 core 3 Ghz beasts we have today i must say that the programmers were a hell of a lot better back then!
@92EXC Excellent point. The programmers 'back in the day' wrote VERY tight, efficient, and fast code. They didn't have the luxury of 'tons of memory' and extensive libraries. From what I recall, back in the day, when the boys at Motorola saw what Apple did with their 6 mhz 68000 chip, they were even blown away. Amazing. The secret was the Quickdraw graphics library -- that's what made the on screen magic happen!
These cost more than macbook pros now (according to ebay)
Treadzeze 2 days ago
I don't see a vest.
GoldenWinger001 2 days ago
The funny thing about this is the fact that my 4 years old PC is slower at opening calculator than the Lisa from 1984...
Eis357 5 days ago
I WANT AN APPLE LISA!
i9tion 6 days ago
did he just say "what the f" is this?
chico31992 1 week ago
Image back then, Apple took the whole "Window" idea straight off Xerox earlier computers from 1979.
Back then: Apple took it, and re-marketed it.
Today: Apple takes things and remarket them again.
I wouldn't say Apple are very innovative.
They are just successful where other companies fails: Marketing.
sysghost 1 week ago
Hi,
You are rich and could afford the $10,000 price for an Apple Lisa and now you want to know what you can do with it... thank you for your money... but you can't do jack shit
crocodile2006 2 weeks ago
Lisa's Pads lol
BitConfig 2 weeks ago
@BitConfig Hi Bit - I'm glad you are enjoying the videos. Yes, Lisa's pads -- and to stop the Lisa from doing something, you press 'command-period' -- yes, Lisa stops when she has her period.
adiblasi 2 weeks ago
I am mainly Windows user, although I like Macs but don't own any because of cost of hardware and gaming support in the OS. It is so funny watching all of your latest vids and then seeing you when you were so much younger. You wouldn't be able to tell the difference if you closed your eyes and did an audio comparison lol. The part of the machine that also impressed me was the opening of window animation, very impressive for it's time. Love watching your videos, very entertaining!
BitConfig 2 weeks ago
8:08 DUDE ! UPGRADE RAm....
NUqpUN 3 weeks ago
It's lightning fast, so fast you can't see what is going on.
BlueBetaPro 3 weeks ago
man that is slow XD
still cool tho
Ikkepop 3 weeks ago
240p we meet again
Randomguy578 3 weeks ago
Good quality for a 2006 vid
TTGxPlanB 4 weeks ago
I'll just point to the calculator and CLICK on it. Really? You didn't need to say CLICK so loud.
iliketohelppplz 4 weeks ago
You're the coolest looking computer geek I've ever seen.
MrRobotoToo 1 month ago
Will this geekbench higher than the 12 core mac pro? ;)
MasterHackintosh 1 month ago
Wow, Alfred, I thought I was a legit Mac old-timer, but you have me beat hands down. Do you happen to still own a Lisa? Those things are worth a fortune today. I remember reading in one of the Mac magazines that thousands of Lisa computers had been destroyed by Apple after the Mac gained success. I remember seeing in the back of the same mags a company that sold Lisa that were reconfigured to be more powerful. I wish I would have bought one, they were cheap. Thanks so much for this!
Dallasdeckard 1 month ago
I got in the mindset of 1984 and the things you were doing we're actually intriguing. There's some things on there that are simpler than modern computers. Well done
Zzyyzzxx7 1 month ago
Ya know, I've got to say this was a great presentation.
Zzyyzzxx7 1 month ago
hes opening 3 files at the same time?! is he crazy?!
tistatos 1 month ago in playlist teknikhistoria
how can you beat 5 mhz moto cpu 68000, 1 meg ram, 5 meg HD , 5.25 floppy capasity of 871k all this for $10k in 1983
LordDraco2010 1 month ago
my computer is much better and is ten times cheaper
Santossaint 2 months ago
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Safe to say that apple computer have aged well
mr5018 2 months ago
Safe to say that ape computers have aged well
mr5018 2 months ago
WOW a mouse!
WOW icons!
But seriously THIS IS COOL
I mean, it was 1984 and it still looks like Mac OS today!
T H I S I S C O O L ! ! !
zxhenrikxz 2 months ago
@zxhenrikxz I have to tell you, coming from 'green letters on a black screen', when I first saw this system, I crapped my pants. For real. What a blow away. I was saying "Alien technology. This is the stuff we got from the downed spacecraft from Roswell." Actually, no. Apple was 'inspired' by Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) who screwed up (due to Xerox corporate big shots) in not refining, packaging and releasing this incredible technology.
adiblasi 2 months ago
even THAT one looks good. apple <3
marcyvd 2 months ago
you look younger now
GordonGraphic86 2 months ago
lol he laughs when talking about the "mouse"
adamsb33 2 months ago
old stinker? 22 years ago? you'd better get dry behind your ears, buddy.
pepper669 2 months ago
@pepper669 What are you referring to?
adiblasi 2 months ago
does anyone know the specs of apple lisa?
vLeggy 2 months ago
@vLeggy The specs on mine are probably dust.
adiblasi 2 months ago
@adiblasi Knock it awwf!
Branhower1 1 month ago
Go to 5:00 for the demo
shadowlago95 2 months ago
That made me laugh because i know how to use a compt.
Basehell 2 months ago
Compare it to the new MacBook air
ktezcan22 3 months ago
@daylenclawproduction With regard to your question "Did the intro have to be 5 min long?" - at the time of upload, yes, as I was speaking, personally, to my initial subscriber base of 50 or so people. Once someone form Japan posted it on DIGG and it made the front page, obviously not, as that intro was not intended for 'everyone else.' Quite frankly, I state it very clearly in the text to skip the first 5 minutes -- and now I'm telling you, personally. It is what it is, and it remains as so.
adiblasi 3 months ago
Wow, even then they had widgets.
mrbrockpeters 3 months ago
My Asus PC is slower than this!
TheAppleKid2011 3 months ago
OH GOD THAT HAAAAAAIR--
sonicawesomeness 3 months ago
Something to see only from outside and to build their own version, there is something else than to steal it, especially when after 10 years no major computer manufacturer used the Xerox technology. Yes, 10 years lay between.
But that's just my own attitude.
Lightfromsirius 3 months ago in playlist Apple
Did she just say "School People"?
lomomusician 3 months ago
Im actually impressed :) i mean that made work faster and efficient but back then a computer was for efficiency in the workplace, later on there was the Gaming Computer or Home Computer... Oh gosh #_# (overwhelmed)
91jmda 3 months ago
Thanks for taking us back in time. You did a great job back then explaining things (common place today, i.e. Cut and Paste) that were never seen before that would go on to change the way we use computers. I think we take a lot for granted these days.
mikefilsaime 3 months ago
Wow I remember back then there was a huge tensions within apple over the Mac Vs. Lisa. This lead to Jobs being fired by the board from Apple over this.
dinfg6 3 months ago
Rest in Peace Steve Jobs. You changed the world's technology drastically, and we all thank you for that.
TheCylax 3 months ago
Saw one on ebay for about 8000 Dollars.
Zudeare 4 months ago
@bryonlape Because it was incredibly expensive. It was about £10,000. Not even modern computers are this expensive.
Willsterdude3000 4 months ago
wait, isnt this the PC, what wanted to be on fire very much?
rulonis 4 months ago
Why did Lisa fail?
bryonlape 4 months ago
@bryonlape It was way too expensive. It was $10,000 back then, a price you would pay for a nice car. (Back then, a Nissan Sentra was $4949, I recall.) To make a long story short, most of the unsold Lisas were sent to a landfill.
RK831 3 months ago
Oh man its slow!
TheDecadeMoon 4 months ago
The woman is absolutely horrible. Worst interviewer I have ever seen.
tugafighter 4 months ago
what only floppy?? no blu-ray?
venom477 5 months ago
"leaser"
YewLogs026 5 months ago
@YewLogs026
LOL
like Quimby.
Sismiques 3 months ago
Has it flash ???
TurkishStyles52 5 months ago
'The most innovative feature the mouse.
Its a pointing device.
You move it and a genius pointer moves on this screen in front of me.'
How technologically challenged were we? :/
unstoic5 5 months ago
the Lisa was the very FIRST Product that Apple came out with after they STOLE the Next Generation Graphical User Interface Technology from Engineers at Xerox because when it was presented to senior production & design people at Xerox they thought it was way over the top...they really weren't looking for anything that required anywhere near that much input from the user, they wanted something a lot more simple...& "The Steve's" (Jobs & Woz from Apple) AND Bill Gates with Paul Allen did it too...
IMaDEM0N 5 months ago
@IMaDEM0N Indeed - the concept was gotten when they did the walk through of PARC; of course, the actual code base was developed by Apple, with the secret being the rudimentary Quickdraw routines that made the magic on the screen 'work' as well as it did -- with a 6 mhz processor. Amazing. And that's the story....
adiblasi 5 months ago
@adiblasi are you sure apple lisa is 6 mhz lol my phone is much faster than that :)
nissan3042 3 months ago
@IMaDEM0N Xerox really "blew it", as they invented quite a bit of the core technology; reference the book "Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, then Ignored, the First Personal Computer "
adiblasi 5 months ago
@IMaDEM0N I wouldn't call licensing Xerox patents by allowing Xerox to purchase Apple stock at a favorable rate exactly stealing. Haven't found the exact sum agreed upon by googling, but do consider that Xerox at this point was making several times what Apple did simply peddling copy toner and support contracts for their photocopiers. Basically, the Xerox PARC engineers had developed the model and tools for a paperless office to a photocopy company, guess how much interest they had in selling it
Meton12765 4 months ago
@IMaDEM0N They didn't steal it from Xerox. When they visited Xerox PARC, where they saw the GUI, Xerox was given 100,000 shares of Apple.
LegoLoverFilms 4 months ago
@IMaDEM0N Oh, for heaven's sake. It wasn't STOLEN from Xerox. The top executives at Xerox basically GAVE Apple the tech, because they didn't want it anyway.
lucylovesguitar 2 months ago
You are lying! I never hit you! YOU ARE TEARING ME APART, LISA!
onemidnightgone 5 months ago
@onemidnightgone This is so funny... because I JUST saw THE ROOM for the first time only a few days ago, and I saw your comment, and I am absolutely laughing my ass off, even despite the stock market dump of today. Almost makes me want to film a parody with the LISA computer. LOL! Though my acting will never be as good as Tommy Wiseau.
adiblasi 5 months ago
Man, have we come a long way!
viewlotto 5 months ago
$3500!
djfaygo 6 months ago
c++ wasn't even out yet. JAYSUS
felipe200794 6 months ago
Very interesting.
LooseLipsSyncChips 6 months ago
it costed $8,000?!?!?!?!??? (17:43) I would nvr pay that much for a computer that barely did anything at all!!!!!!!
spongeyperson1000 6 months ago
Nice blast from the past, Al... The LISA must've definitely been a huge step in technology back then, and probably was responsible for many GUI advances such as those we see today, be it multiple windows and those applications. Must definitely be an antique nowadays.
brickbuilder711 6 months ago
Something tells me "Victoria" was inspired by this interviewer's voice.
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jamestargetedindiv 6 months ago
The Lisa was NOT the first home computer with a GUI. That was the Xerox Star, 3 years earlier.
Commentator9000 6 months ago
@Commentator9000 Correct. Apple was inspired by what they saw with their tour of the Palo Alto Research Center. Apple took it a step further, and brought it to widespread market.
adiblasi 6 months ago
@Commentator9000 Neither the Xerox Star or the Lisa was considered a 'home' computer, unless you think home budgets for computers in the early 80's exceeded $10k. And I can assure you, they didn't.
f0ofyBunny 6 months ago
Yeah....But can it play Crysis 2 on full settings? (Windows retard imitation)
TheMasterofganja 6 months ago in playlist Apple Rules - Microsoft Sucks
@TheMasterofganja How is Crysis 2 compared to the first? Did they dumb it down for the consoles? That's what I heard.
adiblasi 6 months ago
@TheMasterofganja LOL! YOUR COMMENT IS SOOOO TRUE!
ChrisVaughn85 6 months ago
@TheMasterofganja you do realize the will it run crysis thing is a joke right?
viperfan7 6 months ago
you sound really nervous in the commercial
MASTURCHEEF001 6 months ago
Wow, such a cool video! Thanks for posting!
druidmechanics 6 months ago
Watching this on my macbook pro i7..... lol
ackboy6 6 months ago
Apple invented the mouse and desktop. Suck that Microsoft! :D
freakencheaken 7 months ago
@freakencheaken
they didn't
Xerox invented the GUI and the mouse and used it in 1977 (Xerox Sparc)
saemikneu 7 months ago
@freakencheaken LOLUMAD
MASTURCHEEF001 6 months ago
We've Come a Long Way, Baby!
nightcbs 7 months ago
Damn when does this come out?
P6jth3k1n9 7 months ago
$3500 thats alot of cash even for our time
shakin2009 7 months ago
@shakin2009 it was 10000 buddy
passtheyoggurt 7 months ago
5:00 for start bit
shakin2009 7 months ago
This video was awesome
TheyAreHereForYou 7 months ago
Its amazing for the applications we take for granted today. A clock application was considered a software application and system "feature" back then. Now that is an afterthought. Thanks for taking us back in time!
KC9EVP 8 months ago
This p.c. was truly ahead of it's time. It is too bad that it was so expensive..
spacemouse1 8 months ago
It's truly amazing how far computing has come in twenty years... Just opening the calculator or clock took several seconds. Now we just take instant loading of simple programs such as that for granted. This thing had only 1MB of RAM, as compared to the 4-8GB that come standard on most computers now. Lisa had a 5MB external hard drive, as compared to the 500GB+ standard on computers today.
Simply put, it's just amazing how fast technology advances and changes.
redtrolly 8 months ago
Is "ripping off pieces of paper" really how the system was supposed to work or was it just a simplified explanation how to create new text files?
zupperm 8 months ago
hahaha microsoft could only dream of this back then..
cengizkhanyt 8 months ago
I recently found a keyboard like that in my "archive". I can tell you guys that you can kill a man easily with it....if you can lift it xD
CutControlPunk 8 months ago in playlist Apple
Back then, 5 000 000 bytes seemed like alot!
int3ll3r0n 8 months ago
you did a good job with this demo XD
TheManFromOctober 9 months ago
I like it how Jobs named this machine after his daughter.
TheAppleNinja 9 months ago
the woman is really creepy
bronpedullasmith 9 months ago
The first time I was able to actually select text and effect it was like magic. You younger folks have no idea....
Umbereth 9 months ago
10:43 where the Windows logo came from!
the747videoer 9 months ago
The GUI is amazing! Now if they just figure out something new... What would it be? That you can step in to your computer?
JBMoevies 9 months ago
I'd tap Lisa's mouse any day ;D
MrEatSomething 9 months ago
Lisa's hardware looks sexy.
MrPhantoful 10 months ago
Thanks for sharing - I was expecting bandages on your face. All these vintage tech shows are so awkward. The host usually doesn't know anything and goes "...so show us some thing interesting" an the guest usually obeys. Its funny she asked you about the hardware.
thelegendarypaki 10 months ago
SLOW COMPUTER... but that guy sure can type!
rinkavideos64 10 months ago
Can it run Crysis? Oh wait that isn't Mac compatible.
ComradeNF 10 months ago
state of the art :)
tudor69 10 months ago
really incredible to think how advanced that machine was for 1984, I'm guessing that the Lisa system was one of the major stepping stones from the old Command line interface to the modern day GUI.
Really interesting video, thanks for sharing :)
Dragonsrule89 10 months ago
terrible ram! how much ram did the lisa have? i said terrible because EVERYTHING TOOK SO LONG TO LOAD if i was even born in that age i would just die of impatience
skybabylon1 10 months ago
it had 5 MHz processor and Introductory price of US$ 9995 in 1983
sanica93 11 months ago
a whopping -$9990 more
Shockingist 11 months ago
$10000 then
Hell of alot more now
Shockingist 11 months ago
Thanks for sharing your expertise here.
xantochroi 11 months ago
It's not a clock, it's a widget :)
woody91142069 11 months ago
@muhammadsshahab no lets show them a server multi processor with 4 socket 4x processor amd phenom II 8 core 3ghz 12 mb of cache each 64gb of ram with 5x 1 TB hdd with 64 mb of cache each hdd in raid they would badtrip
jejeroy 11 months ago
Do you have the rest of the video where you demonstrate the Mac?
ImperialProductions 11 months ago
Lets go back and time and show 1Ghz in a phone and 512 mb of ram !!
muhammadsshahab 11 months ago
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jejeroy 11 months ago
dude you llok like a gangster rather than a geek lol
cothfi 11 months ago
I'm in my 20s and I'm shocked by some of these responses...I remember being excited by SoundBlaster and when we first got a mouse...I remember when my dad bought Sony Laser Library for our old CompuAdd...it cost 1,000 dollars for an external 2x CD-ROM drive and a few programs like Compton's Encyclopedia 1991 and it was amazing back then. Those days were much more exciting for computers than it is now. The Apple Lisa is more interesting than my new iPhone IMO.
jessinerr 11 months ago
@jessinerr i know the feeling,i do remember that my first major upgrade was a mouse and the second a hdd...and my first ever virus!i remember finding it hilarius (i was pretty young then) that the computer could get ill.I love the new technologies but nowdays its harder for companies to reinvent themselves and create completely new and unexpected products ,for example dos-shell....loved that interface :D
Cheers!
anestakos83 11 months ago
Thanks for this video. This was an amazing machine.
jessinerr 11 months ago
omg icons? what r u on drugs?
TNG128MB 11 months ago
Point and click?? REVOLUTIONARY!
GrandmasMan 11 months ago
I bet Lisa was Steve Jobs's girlfriend
legitmashups 11 months ago
@legitmashups I think his daughter was named Lisa :V
yzbi 11 months ago
made an article previously re Apple Lisa..Subscribe to AppBuddy for more apps and reviews and see my article too,,,
AppBuddy 11 months ago
I just watched the first GUI of Apple, ON an apple machine..whow..
This is really a great video!
mmubashar 11 months ago
CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK
tekfx19 11 months ago
The price for the Lisa is comparable for a Mac today...How dey do dat?
MrDarcyzPP 1 year ago
A good office always needs plenty of paper...but they forgot toilet paper.
MrDarcyzPP 1 year ago
My mom has been working with computers for years and still doesn't know what a hard disk is, but you did a good job of explaining where it is for the people in 1984 who'd NEVER used one.
MrDarcyzPP 1 year ago
Looks like you got a little love connection there.
MrDarcyzPP 1 year ago
At about 8:00 you accidentally open a document (stationary?) rather than moving it on the desktop. I bet at the time you were hoping she wouldn't notice (which I don't think she did).
slugnbozo 1 year ago
@slugnbozo You are absolutely correct on that - we were live, so I had to just 'go with it...'
adiblasi 1 year ago
@slugnbozo thx for posting...priceless!!!
btw women sounds like shes HALs sister...
djurdjakobas 10 months ago
So is this the first or one of the first point-and-click GUIs?
CoolDudeClem 1 year ago
Has anyone here seen Pirates Of Silicon Valley? If Bill Gates hadn't done what he did, we'd all be pretty much stuck spending 1000 dollars or more for a computer and they'd only be available to a smaller portion of people who can afford them. So that would mean that technology wouldn't have advanced as quickly as it did now. Sure, mac may have better equipment, but that doesn't matter if only a small population can afford it.
GtsMcLuvin 1 year ago
The Apple Leeser... an innovation
bryceHUHwhat 1 year ago
That was very advanced for the time being...
JakobPowellTECH 1 year ago
That was so cool. Feels a bit ironic to be watching a video like that on an iPad. I like to imagine what it would be like if you took today's technology, like an iPhone, back into the past.
jakes12092 1 year ago
@jakes12092 Have fun with that.
MrDarcyzPP 1 year ago
wow a younger alfred great vintage footage
xsimesx 1 year ago
Listen to that loud typing. Now that's what you call a keyboard. ;D
Matrix803 1 year ago
@pwn3dpwn3dpwn3dpwn3d You are indeed correct. That's me. Old school! LOL
adiblasi 1 year ago
the lisa let you run more, but in the end the mac got the most popular? WTF?
schneibgamer1 1 year ago
@schneibgamer1 The Lisa was like $6000, while the Mac was MUCH cheaper.
GruntyStudios 1 year ago
@schneibgamer1 The LiSA was about $10,000, due to having a full MEGABYTE of RAM, which cost a fortune back then! the Mac 128K come in at a more affordable price. It took YEARS before the Mac was able to do what the LISA did, from an OS standpoint. Do note that the LISA was the development system for the Mac. So, if you watned to write Mac software, you had to buy a LISA, code on that, and then compile for the Mac.
adiblasi 1 year ago
@adiblasi Thanks for the great lesson on computing history, that was really fascinating. A bit OP but you still look pretty good after all this years, you barely changed since that video.
adryanv 9 months ago
@schneibgamer1 the mac also had a much better OS
WarpeaceWar6 1 year ago
@schneibgamer1 dude...this is awesome. I love learning about old computers...and i love you hair lol!
slovakmath 1 year ago
@slovakmath thank you?
schneibgamer1 1 year ago
This was written on a PowerBook G4.
IpH0n3BIACH 1 year ago
its ironic, as the lisa's drawing tools are better than paint now
boringrem 1 year ago
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!!!!!ROFLMFAO! xD i love it when the dude is explaining the mouse! i just point to the calculator and i will CLICK on it!
lol9392 1 year ago
Not bad! This is so awesome!
sonicmonkey123 1 year ago
i want one i wish i had a computer.....
DetonatingPasta 1 year ago
10:11 this really is amazing, the fact that every application and directory can be seen parallelly makes it so much easier to use than a command line.
vanvalldrey 1 year ago
Don't take this the wrong way adiblasi, but has anyone ever told you that in 1984 you looked like the Son of Sam?
discolando 1 year ago
My god that computer's slow!
Ishcoa 1 year ago
I wonder who the host of the tri-state cable channel was... hmmm
leventopoulo 1 year ago
"the most inovative thing on lisa is the mouse" and "these pictures are called icons"... yust by waching this footage you reallize how much the technology has changed our everyday life, and what kind of technology we take for granted... i love this, just see when you open the calculator, it takes a moment, now we can open pictures that is gigs and gigs of bytes big, in a second, and with the lightpeak coming out we can transfer videos, large videofiles in high cuality, in a second to.
uikonaful 1 year ago
@Feathery0 I talk too damn fast? Hmm. Then you need to increase the throughput of your cerebral language processing and parsing systems. LOL!
adiblasi 1 year ago
Wow, Lisa looks great. I think I will upgrade from my TRS 80. I love the idea of the new mouse thing.
Thanks for the info Mr. Diblasi
zaq4267 1 year ago
@zaq4267 Hi Zaq -- ahh the TRS-80 -- another breakthrough system. I remember Tandy sold high end systems that actually ran under SCO Xenix, and you could drop two additional terminals -- imagine that -- a 3 user business class system, all the way back then! Cool stuff!!
adiblasi 1 year ago
The woman's voice in the old video is soooo dull.
minnescanada 1 year ago
We take the mouse for granted today.
P0werlinX 1 year ago
@P0werlinX Back in the day, before I referred to is as 'an upside down track ball', I used to say "it's like a pack of cigarettes with a wire and a ball, and the computer can sense it's motion on the desk." Imagine that!!
adiblasi 1 year ago
@P0werlinX yeah it's funny that the interviewer was amazed that you could cut and then re-paste text, but in 1984 that must have been amazing.
kaplanfx 1 year ago
This is just amazing... It's practicly windows & word in 1983... The Computer does exactly what we need it to do in resonable time and it's very easy to use....
And keeping in mind that it had quite a "stone age" processor comparing to the 10 core 3 Ghz beasts we have today i must say that the programmers were a hell of a lot better back then!
92EXC 1 year ago
@92EXC Excellent point. The programmers 'back in the day' wrote VERY tight, efficient, and fast code. They didn't have the luxury of 'tons of memory' and extensive libraries. From what I recall, back in the day, when the boys at Motorola saw what Apple did with their 6 mhz 68000 chip, they were even blown away. Amazing. The secret was the Quickdraw graphics library -- that's what made the on screen magic happen!
adiblasi 1 year ago
stupendo
eroscarvico 1 year ago