On 21/12/2015 22:34, "Noel Chiappa" <j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
>> From: Adrian Graham > >> Overblown salesmanship aside, technically I suppose they're right. > > Well, I don't think so. According to Wikipedia (I know, I know), the Lisa was > released on January 19, 1983, but the Xerox Star (AKA Dandelion): I think the seller is aiming for the 'this serial number is under 32,000 therefore it was one of the first 32,000 mice made and therefore PART OF HISTORY' > was introduced in 1981, almost two years before. The Star was supposed to be > a commercial product version of the Alto, and although it had many issues, it > did have an advanced version of the graphic-based user interface that is now > universal - icons, etc, etc. And it had a mouse. Oh I know :) I wanted a Lisa as soon as I first saw the launch issue of Personal Computer News over here in the UK. April '83 I think it was. Took me 17 years and I obviously had to make do with a LisaII but hey... http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/museum/apple/lisa/index.php (my ISP has just changed my external IP address now that they're on DOCSIS-3 so that URL might not work straight away) -- Adrian/Witchy Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator Www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UK's biggest private home computer collection?
