I was at SIGGRAPH '83 when Steve Jobs introduced "Lisa" (for the bargain prices of $10,000) (Reply #16)

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Wed Apr 25, 2018, 07:18 AM

16. I was at SIGGRAPH '83 when Steve Jobs introduced "Lisa" (for the bargain prices of $10,000)

With it's intuitive graphic user interface, cute little icons, and mouse control, it was touted as the computer for anyone - well, if you had $10 grand.

Steve Jobs told the rapt audience "I wanted to offer a new thing that had two features: easy enough your mother could use it, and bold enough that all our competitors would say "Oh SHIT!"

If only I had had the money to buy Apple stock back then.

My first was this unassuming bit of tech:

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59 replies	Author	Time	Post
How to send an "E mail" 1984 [View all]	Demovictory9	Apr 2018	OP
I remember actually kinda liking 300 baud modems back when...	TreasonousBastard	Apr 2018	#1
Great vid	angry citizen	Apr 2018	#8
Nice find!	William Seger	Apr 2018	#2
yup...	GetRidOfThem	Apr 2018	#3
Cool	William Seger	Apr 2018	#5
Should have tried a trading platform for Pez dispensers!	GetRidOfThem	Apr 2018	#13
Yup, it was probably Compute	William Seger	Apr 2018	#14
That was my first Word Processor!	GetRidOfThem	Apr 2018	#21
LOL, yeah, the speed button	William Seger	Apr 2018	#23
Atari 1200XL here. My aunt had a C64 i used a few times.	Roland99	Apr 2018	#12
Actually, now that I think about it, my first computer was a Sinclair	William Seger	Apr 2018	#17
I had one of those.	MGKrebs	Apr 2018	#18
Yeah, in fairness, it was my first exposure to BASIC	William Seger	Apr 2018	#19
I had programmed a cool text-based football game on my Atari	Roland99	Apr 2018	#22
Thats way better than me	jcgoldie	Apr 2018	#28
I had the same	yesphan	Apr 2018	#27
Started on the VIC 20...	reACTIONary	Apr 2018	#35
cut my teeth on the Data General Nova 2	infullview	Apr 2018	#39
I was a physics Grad Student at the time	jimlup	Apr 2018	#4
I believe it was called bitnet on the IBM mainframe	infullview	Apr 2018	#10
I remember being amazed	jimlup	Apr 2018	#25
The mainframe is not dead.	infullview	Apr 2018	#29
Verizon still uses a lot for call record processing	William Seger	Apr 2018	#33
Somehow that's somewhat comforting	jimlup	Apr 2018	#48
Big iron is set to make a big comeback	jmowreader	Apr 2018	#56
I remember the release of 2BSD in 1979. It was magic.	hunter	Apr 2018	#59
Can you just imagine where this technology will take us in 30 years?	MrScorpio	Apr 2018	#6
Showing my age perhaps	kchamberlin25	Apr 2018	#7
No, showing your age	infullview	Apr 2018	#30
I did that, but it was COBOL.	The Velveteen Ocelot	Apr 2018	#34
hope you were a good typist.	infullview	Apr 2018	#37
Fortunately it was for a short time as part of a university course	The Velveteen Ocelot	Apr 2018	#40
That was my first paying job in University	TrogL	Apr 2018	#42
My first modem	sharp_stick	Apr 2018	#9
The good old days of dial up bulletin board systems	Snake Plissken	Apr 2018	#11
Yep. I had a bb account in the 90s	Demovictory9	Apr 2018	#31
Ah, the good old days,	infullview	Apr 2018	#32
Thanks for the memories !!!	SWBTATTReg	Apr 2018	#15
I was at SIGGRAPH '83 when Steve Jobs introduced "Lisa" (for the bargain prices of $10,000)	FailureToCommunicate	Apr 2018	#16
I owned two Lisas	TrogL	Apr 2018	#43
Two!	FailureToCommunicate	Apr 2018	#45
Personal password: 1-2-3-4	progressoid	Apr 2018	#20
LOL, mine was much more clever: 7410	William Seger	Apr 2018	#24
I noticed that, too	mucifer	Apr 2018	#58
Hey, look, it's Moss from the IT Crowd! nt	Tommy_Carcetti	Apr 2018	#26
Really Kewl!	Canoe52	Apr 2018	#36
For a second I thought you meant this	geardaddy	Apr 2018	#38
This was some expensive stuff at the time.	mwooldri	Apr 2018	#41
yes. my first computer cost $1500! a lot of money 25 plus years ago.	Demovictory9	Apr 2018	#50
I have a lapel pin	NJCher	Apr 2018	#51
"Waiting for the modem..."	Miles Archer	Apr 2018	#44
Yes. This is what computers were without porn.	Yavin4	Apr 2018	#46
My first computer was a Timex-Sinclair 2068.	CaptainTruth	Apr 2018	#47
I still can't figure out anything tech. It sucks!	BigmanPigman	Apr 2018	#49
Fascinating	underpants	Apr 2018	#52
youtube is a treasure trove of retro vids	Demovictory9	Apr 2018	#55
Thanks for posting......incredible..	Stuart G	Apr 2018	#53
The Mo-Dem.	Codeine	Apr 2018	#54
I'm pretty sure the password he types in at about 1:25 is 1234. lol	TeamPooka	Apr 2018	#57

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