Beats me - I never even saw Lisa.
MS was always faking it - I suspect they still are.
Now if you've got a box for the Apple 1 it might be worth a bit.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 19/12/2007, at 3:54 PM, Jan Steinman wrote:
> I guess we haven't been properly introduced, then. :-)
>
> I even used the Lisa, back when I was paid to evaluate new technology
> in Tektronix's Computer Research Laboratory.
>
> My group at Tek, Apple, HP, and DEC were all invited by Xerox to take
> a detailed look at their window-n-mouse technology. HP and DEC played
> with a Dorado workstation and Smalltalk for a bit, wrote the requisite
> report, and did nothing else. Tektronix went on to do its own
> implementation of Smalltalk for a few years, and then moved on. Only
> Apple continued on with the great research that came out of Xerox's
> Palo Alto Research Center... and Microsoft copied the thin veneer of
> the GUI, without really implementing the object-oriented innards.
>
> Requisite on-topic info: I no longer have the boxes for the E-3 and
> 12-60 that I bought today, although I cut out the bar codes.
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