I was under the impression it was self referencing:
Lisa Is Superior Architecture
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I came across a DVD that will produce an ISO of MS Bob. Now it's a matter of finding that DVD.....
She is alive and kicking..on linux. 
http://lisa-home.sourceforge.net/
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LISa is a small daemon which is intended to run on end user systems. It provides something like a "network neighbourhood", but only
relying on the TCP/IP protocol stack, no smb or whatever.
The information about the hosts in your "neighbourhood" is provided via TCP port 7741.
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http://lisa-home.sourceforge.net/
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LISa is a small daemon which is intended to run on end user systems. It provides something like a "network neighbourhood", but only
relying on the TCP/IP protocol stack, no smb or whatever.
The information about the hosts in your "neighbourhood" is provided via TCP port 7741.
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Lisa was the name of the child he didn't acknowledge.
I remember the ads in the back of Macworld for the Lisas turned into Mac XLs - basically a Mac plus ROM, but the advantage was the XL had the Lisa's bigger screen. Back in the days when Macs costs many thousands of dollars, it was a bargoon.
James
I remember the ads in the back of Macworld for the Lisas turned into Mac XLs - basically a Mac plus ROM, but the advantage was the XL had the Lisa's bigger screen. Back in the days when Macs costs many thousands of dollars, it was a bargoon.
James
The Lisa was such an awe inspiring computer when it was released that it gave all us geeks a glimpse of what the future could be and probably planted the seeds of many hardware and software developments thereafter. Together with the Commodore Amiga, which I personally believed to have been the computer with the best chance of setting the standard of the future of computing, the Lisa was a maverick pioneer and vision seeder for the entire computer industry. Do not just look at what the Lisa and Amiga did not achieve in the market place, rather look at the influence they had on what we do today and celebrate the amazing people who designed them.
Mostly I remember the hours I wasted agonizing over whether to buy a Lisa - fortunately I didn't.
More than that I remember the thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours I spent on an Amiga and accessories and how Commodore killed it through inattention, high prices, and lack of software. Plus the many miles I drove to O.C. and the San Fernando Valley to get the Amiga, hardware, and software - and I was hardly in a commercial backwater, I lived in West Los Angeles. I did make some money on a project that got scrapped when it became clear the Amiga was going nowhere, so it wasn't a dead loss.
I got more value and learning from my Atari 800 that I bought two miles away in Santa Monica, and of course, it had 'Star Raiders'.
More than that I remember the thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours I spent on an Amiga and accessories and how Commodore killed it through inattention, high prices, and lack of software. Plus the many miles I drove to O.C. and the San Fernando Valley to get the Amiga, hardware, and software - and I was hardly in a commercial backwater, I lived in West Los Angeles. I did make some money on a project that got scrapped when it became clear the Amiga was going nowhere, so it wasn't a dead loss.
I got more value and learning from my Atari 800 that I bought two miles away in Santa Monica, and of course, it had 'Star Raiders'.
Sometimes I wonder if there really were Lisas dumped in a landfill in Logan, Utah. I think it might be a metaphor. After Apple discontinued the Lisa, Sun Remarketing took over selling/servicing/upgrading Lisas and Lisa parts. And Sun Remarketing is based in (Come on people, it's not that hard) Logan, Utah!
This leads me to believe that A: Apple didn't really bury any Lisas, they "dumped" them in Logan, UT by giving them to Sun, or B: Sun knew that Apple was going to dump the things, and dug them up right after they were dumped. (And yes, I heard the rumor that there were armed guards making sure the things got buried because it was a tax writeoff, but these guys wouldn't have hung around more than a day or 2 at the absolute most, and I almost doubt that there really were armed guards there just to dump computers.)
Just another weird 'conspiracy theory' idea :-P
This leads me to believe that A: Apple didn't really bury any Lisas, they "dumped" them in Logan, UT by giving them to Sun, or B: Sun knew that Apple was going to dump the things, and dug them up right after they were dumped. (And yes, I heard the rumor that there were armed guards making sure the things got buried because it was a tax writeoff, but these guys wouldn't have hung around more than a day or 2 at the absolute most, and I almost doubt that there really were armed guards there just to dump computers.)
Just another weird 'conspiracy theory' idea :-P
Doing a clean up of obsolete equipment for my employer to clear some space in our storage room, one of the things I clearly remember tossing in the dumpster was an Apple Lisa. This would have been about 10 years ago.
Sometimes I wished I had saved it and put it on a shelf beside my wife's Underwood typewriter.
Sometimes I wished I had saved it and put it on a shelf beside my wife's Underwood typewriter.
Landfills map the location of each days dumping before they cover it in case they need to go back to look for something.
A rumor is they were dumped in area 51 of the Logan landfill...
A rumor is they were dumped in area 51 of the Logan landfill...
It's been a long time and my memory is admittedly failing but...
Was Steve Jobs not already being marginalized by John Scully during this time?
Wasn't Lisa the "corporately supported" project while Jobs and a small team developed the Mac in a "skunkworks" environment?
Am I completely losing it on this?
Was Steve Jobs not already being marginalized by John Scully during this time?
Wasn't Lisa the "corporately supported" project while Jobs and a small team developed the Mac in a "skunkworks" environment?
Am I completely losing it on this?
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