Apple Lisa computer - Old commercial 1/2

[itsabbieduh]

this unique item called a mouse



[MrFrogon233]

Hehe, Whats a mouse? 2:18

[lovelorn8888]

wow! that looks awsome!  ummmm does it play DOOM though?

[SK8CHAMPION1]

man, many things haven't changed!

[khukuma]

This Lisa PC is better than my Mac Book Pro and Sony Vaio Core i5 :P. So futuristic and easy to use, it must be a revolutionary device back then :). Apple always makes easy to use systems.

[zapix12]

so technecly this is a old people work computer....

[hankaaron1961]

Ah, the days when you did your powerpoint type presentations at work instead of "on your own time" after a full day at work.

[BoyScout1960]

I actually saw one of these on eBay a while back. I ought to have bought it, if I'd only known it could do all of that stuff!

Too bad Apple disposed of hundreds of unsold Lisas by burying them in a landfill (true.)

[SluGGz24]

When does this come out? I'll buy this for sure!

[labelfree904]

lol slow typer

[ToeKnee0126]

Wastepaper basket. Six syllables.

Trash. One syllable.

Evolution!

[roossi]

when is this ?

[oryfoxer7410]

LOL look at how he types on the keyboard. Only use your index fingers

[lolipopus]

A Wastepaper Basket.

[MaxBearguy1]

this new computer is too futuristic, i dont think anyone would buy it

[HypnoToad72]

Chrome text - yup, 1983! The Lisa had preemptive multitasking; the original Macintosh did not. :(

[narotu200]

lol hes a one fingerd typist at 4:29 who does that in a computer demo I guess mac was retarded back then 2

[ScriptTakeSe7en]

that thing makes memos better than my vista O_o

[phoenixdoane]

no way

[ScriptTakeSe7en]

partly because word doesn't work and partly because there wasn't such thing as computer viruses back then XD

[dabu001]

looooooong commercial!

[baroqueboy]

What kind of accent does that man have? It sounds a little like John Noble's caracter on Fringe!!!

[myfriendsarenoobs]

he does doesnt he

[Shindai]

It's funny how even though this was so long ago (in terms of more recent technology) you can still get a sense of how awesome it was. I only remember the jump from the Spectrum to the Master System to the SNES :$

[crazyjorge2111]

damn apple was ahead of their time.

[habakoski]

Google Amiga first. ;)

[MasterNaruto1214]

@habakoski Agreed.

[BorkGonsam]

Xerox had the alto in the 70s

Apple stole from Xerox in the 80s

Microsoft stole from both in the 90s

and for some reason fanboys still give a shit in the 2000's

[thingforvids]

lol

[HypnoToad72]

BorkGonsam - actually, Apple hired some Xerox employees, who took the idea with them and changed sufficiently so that Xerox's lawsuit failed.

Web search "MacKiDo interface ui_history"  for more

[CPcast]

sigh dont u miss the days when this kinda stuff was all new and so awesome. Also i wish macs were still so involved in companies

[ORUPRANKSTAZ]

...was THE first computer using a GUI. The developed ALTO III, etc was not a released product and does not count.

[orlandobramb]

no i think it was

Z1 Computer

i think

[CoolDudeClem]

When he mentions Lisa, I keep thinking of Lisa Simpson even though I know he's talking about the computer! Just seems funny to me. But seriously I love all this old stuff, old computers, vintage audio, vintage electronics, I wish I could get it all.

[gmodesike]

or lisa, steve job's daughter.

[dddaaaannnnn]

I guess in 20 years, our commercials now will seem like this. Except hopefully without something as unfortunate as that mustache...

[itech1012]

welcome to the eighties

[hiyaitsmejoel1]

what year was this made in?

[tomcat5100]

1983

[99vid]

I like apples old opener. cool and retro

[99vid]

its 2009 and i am just learning that computers can do this?

By the way, I was being sarcastic

[YewLogs026]

Waste PAPER basket, damn old people and their crafty lingo.

[cheeswisz]

HAHAHA UNIQUE ITEM CALLED A MOUSE!!!

office dude, you got it off awesome with ur new apple lisa

[loneknight97]

LOL "We move by using this unique item, mouse." New technology- the mouse

[hkja99]

Well it was new technology!

[xDuhlirious]

Deyumm. A wastebasket!

[coldfustion]

seriously i dunno how any computer could run on 5mhz without catching fire.. O_o

[greatbison]

Lol 1:55 "You see what I mean about the screen? It's very uhh.... graphical."

It's funny because they didn't even think of words like "desktop" and "icons" or "interface" yet.

[cusbrar1]

what about root window (desktop pretty much)? oh wait... that probably wasn't till 85' with X on unix

[jgrab1]

He goes to the coffee machine and pours a cup, but the pot's empty! :-)

[kaox44]

Daaamm, that's a graphical screen.

[grantasas]

Anybody else think its a long comercial?.......

[JimTheMingebag]

Thats an awsome computer for its time.

[WOWItsSilicaGel]

We still have computers like that at my school...

[FreedomGotAnAK]

oh, lol. My dad works at a school that had Apple 2e computers until 1999.

[Adrian4Evar]

I wonder how he would react if someone put a Windows Vista Modern tech computer infront of him :P

[ExperimentalArmy]

hell he would have a hart attack if he saw my windows 3.1 laptop

[jgrab1]

He'd say "What a piece of crap!"  ;-)

[ctm154]

His computer looks like a microwave. Hardcore.

[grantasas]

lol i wanna bake hot pockets in there

[cusbrar1]

... cusbrar1 goes off to make a hot pocket app for the iPhone

[monkeyboy4746]

Software was ahead of hardware back then, the Lisa was slow due to its small RAM and HD, but bigger hardware cost a lot and they wanted to keep the price at 10K. It was useable for text, but graphics was much more of a strain on the hardware, you spent most of your time sitting there waiting for it to prepare the window. The Apple II+ was faster if you just wanted to do word processsing, keep in mind there were no affordable laser printers back then.

[StrategoFett]

I like it when "people" make fun of stuff that is old because it isn't as good as stuff now. HAR HAR HAR, look! THAT GUY IS USING AN OLD COMPUTER! WHY ISN'T HE USING A COMPUTER LIKE MINE THAT WON'T BE INVENTED FOR 20 YEARS? morons.

[TheReturnOfGuille]

"Now, you see what I mean about the screen? It's very graphical." Wow! Now I wonder, if we can travel to the past and show a Macbook Air to this guy. LOL

[kleixa]

Macbook air = overrated. I can haz disk drive?

[Besmerched]

can that thing play world of warcraft too?

[fingers95]

Steven is such a slacker...

[theeggrules]

It looks like a big bread box. LMAO

[VivaZweiFan]

'lisa's also got a hole I can put my knob in'

[Mank25]

Computers can do all this?

[ChainbladeVideos]

IT IS INCREDIBLE

i made a memo

[fatsanta]

Yay for two finger typing!

[Wackyland1]

When I was 5 back in 1988 My parents bought a Kaypro 2 what a piece of crap! Then 1 year later they got a present from a wealthy uncle and it was an Apple Lisa it's the best computer ever made! Guess what the piece of crap Kaypro is in my garage in working order. But the Lisa is somewhere in a scrapyard in Baltimore!

[Chasmodon]

As ancient as this is, I found myself entranced by this pseudo-British bureaucrat/cubicle hermit's obfuscating enthusiasm over his '83 Apple Lisa. His mumbling over reports, budgets, menus, 'graphics' and the like was...soothing.

[dawnnaYT]

Bah! Like drinking warm milk.

[DJPWN]

Bill Gates watches with a sinister look on his face. ftw

[rightbrain1]

finally, it's all making sense.

[onesonic11]

At this time, they thought of the mouse like a relic from the future.

[Scooby92]

yay

[jackjeckel5]

Man computers back then werent very fun it was baisically for office work. I wonder how much memory it was capable a having. But anyways it shows how much technology has improved over the years and still progressing.

[maxspeedex]

This apple lisa had 1MB of memory and its processor was a Motorola 68000 running at 5MHz. It came with a 5MB hard drive. Price for this system was $9,995 back then. I would not see any one shelling $9,995 just to play games, so yes this was a pc mainly for office use.

[NintendoKid162]

Hey, I thought it was pretty interesting seing what they had to work with back then, now that we have OS X Leopard and Vista.

[overmind2]

Dont forget Linux :D

[Snipereye64]

develop some graphics!? it was a pie chart. whoa, a mouse. he types slow

[ShudeBwerkin]

DAMN IT, I FORGOT THE DISTRIBUTION LIST!!! FUCK! p.s. Lisa sounds hot.

[Claro1993]

I think this is an introduction video than a TV commercial.

[Lumotaku]

LOl this is horrible who is this fuck??? wow apple has came along way.

[gothicmaster2]

is this my computer? ´lol

[DamnUgotSMACKED]

that was the most boring commercial i've ever seen...

[tendonut]

It is more of an Infomercial than a regular commercial. Very interesting if you consider what most users had to work with back then.

[madcows10]

He didn't mention the loads of porn he downloaded on his coffee break.

[CiniCraft]

ROFL!!! win.

[osirisascending]

Lisa wasn't one of the first to use a mouse and graphical user interface...

It was THE first.

And in 1983, the Lisa had a price tag of $10,000

[mgabrysSF]

re: lisa was the first.

WRONG. Xerox Star - 1981. Expensive - but the first.

[osirisascending]

No, You are mistaken. While the Lisa was not released to the General Public until 1982. A working prototype was making the rounds at trade shows in Summer of 1980. Look it up.

[pininfrna]

mgabrysSF is right. Prototypes don't count. If you count prototypes, consider the Star prototypes which were probably running in Xerox-PARC in 79 or 80.

[Snipereye64]

no the other guys right

[culonot]

i heard that in 2011 we will computers with a terabyte of space!!! cant wait

[madcows10]

in 2011 there will be no mankind.

[DamnUgotSMACKED]

are you the same moron who said 2007 was the year of the Apocalypse?, get a life you stupid mother fucker...

[jcatlett1976]

In the year 2525 ...We already have terabyte drives fucktard...$280 at bestbuy

[Snipereye64]

terabytes of ram. we already have terabyte drives

[beyondtheclouds]

"This unique item called a MOUSE"... wow.

[napalm84]

damn, this crap is ancient! I wonder how computers will progress in another 25 years...

[nerdelicious5]

wow, that's old school

[stuartboy46]

Great job!

[Nitro4292]

Dude. The 80's were corny!

[Drstrangelove17]

Of course, Lisa works hard so a man doesn't have to.