My uncle took receipt of a Lisa in the 80s but didn't have much use for it, so he gave it to our family. Lisa was my first computer. I used to use LisaDraw as a very primitive city builder: rectangles with circles to represent cars; boxes for buildings. I'd use the arrow keys to move things around. I can remember seeing the Lisa redraw pixels, top to bottom, as I pressed the keys.
By the time I moved on to my first Mac (Performa 638CD with SoftFPU installed), I learned more about Apple and understood the Lisa to be a failure in the market, but it will always hold a special place. I assume this is Pascal and I can't really follow it very well, but it's quite a special thing to read the inline comments written by engineers who paved the way for me and inspired me.
Writing this many, many years later on a 16" MacBook Pro with M1 Max.
> I used to use LisaDraw as a very primitive city builder: rectangles with circles to represent cars; boxes for buildings.
Oooh you just reminded me that I used to do the same a decade later on my dad's Macintosh. Can kids have fun with super basic toys on computers these days? Or are they too used to seeing more advanced things on screens to even be interested?
My nephew(5 years old) loves text-to-speach software. He likes to type in wierd stuff and then starts laughing, And that makes me start to laugh, we have a lot of fun with it.
I still think the best gift you can give to a young child is a big cardboard box.
"Took receipt of" ?! I wonder when in the 80's this was ? At launch in 1983 the Lisa cost $10,000 (about $50,000 in 2023 dollars)... Not exactly the sort of thing one casually gets handed!
He had a very successful business and Apple sales talked to him about modernizing his office and workflows. And then he promptly continued to use what he already had. Not an uncommon story even in 2023. :) But it did create a truly remarkable opportunity for me, because certainly, to your point, my family could absolutely not afford this computer.
My uncle took receipt of a Lisa in the 80s but didn't have much use for it, so he gave it to our family. Lisa was my first computer. I used to use LisaDraw as a very primitive city builder: rectangles with circles to represent cars; boxes for buildings. I'd use the arrow keys to move things around. I can remember seeing the Lisa redraw pixels, top to bottom, as I pressed the keys.
By the time I moved on to my first Mac (Performa 638CD with SoftFPU installed), I learned more about Apple and understood the Lisa to be a failure in the market, but it will always hold a special place. I assume this is Pascal and I can't really follow it very well, but it's quite a special thing to read the inline comments written by engineers who paved the way for me and inspired me.
Writing this many, many years later on a 16" MacBook Pro with M1 Max.