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Apple Users

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts) Sat Jan 19, 2013, 04:50 AM Jan 2013

January 19, 1983 – The Apple Lisa, is announced

1983 – The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lisa

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January 19, 1983 – The Apple Lisa, is announced (Original Post) Sherman A1 Jan 2013 OP

And it cost $10,000! Lydia Leftcoast Jan 2013 #1

remember the Zenith clam shells? ChairmanAgnostic Jan 2013 #2

Lydia Leftcoast

(48,217 posts)

1. And it cost $10,000!

Reply to Sherman A1 (Original post)

Sat Jan 19, 2013, 12:16 PM

Jan 2013

I remember when it came out. I was taking a computer literacy class, using Osborne computers, which were sort of portable, except that they came in something the size of an accordion case.

ChairmanAgnostic

(28,017 posts)

2. remember the Zenith clam shells?

Reply to Lydia Leftcoast (Reply #1)

Sat Jan 19, 2013, 12:50 PM

Jan 2013

one of them even had a slot to add an 8087 math coprocessor!

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