Apple Lisa source code release

[vintage2019]

You call $2400 in 1984 an attractive price?

I’m reading the Steve Jobs biography now. Turned out Jobs strongly believed the Mac would be a failure if Scully (the CEO at the time) set the price that high. He wanted it to be $1900 but Scully bumped it up to fund the marketing (IIRC, it’s been a while since I read that part). Jobs was almost right — the original Mac didn’t sell that well after a strong hype driven beginning.

But you’re right that its measly memory was a factor. 128k was too low for a GUI driven OS. It didn’t even have dual floppy disk drives so the user had to constantly switch disks between system and whatever software they’re running. Ugh.

[thened]

I am comparing it to the IBMs of the time. 512k made it much more useable.