Lisa Launched
Good artists copy, great artists steal
Today in 1983, Apple introduced Lisa, a $9,995 PC for business users.
Many of its innovations such as the graphical user interface, a mouse, and document-centric computing, were taken from the Alto computer developed at Xerox PARC, introduced as the $16,595 Xerox Star in 1981. Steve Jobs recalled that he and the Lisa team were very relieved when they saw…
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