Let’s go back in time when computing involved gazing at a blinking cursor and entering cryptic commands—praying you didn’t delete everything by accident. Personal computing was new territory before ...

David Greelish's love for what we now think of as retro computers began when the machines were quite new: In a 1975 trip to the University of North Florida computer lab, when he was in the fifth grade ...

Just about everything the Mac brought to technology was already there a year before with the failed Apple Lisa, that launched on January 19, 1983. That famous venue was permanently closed for ...

In 1983, the Lisa was supposed to be a barnburner. Apple’s brand-new computer had a cutting edge GUI, a mouse, and power far beyond the 8-bit machines that came before. It looked like nothing else on ...

Film maker [David Greelish] wrote in to let us know about his recent documentary: Before Macintosh: The Apple Lisa. The documentary covers the life of the Apple Lisa. It starts with the genesis of the ...

Macworld explores Apple’s foundational decade (1976-1985), highlighting revolutionary products like the Apple I, Apple II, Lisa, Macintosh 128K, and LaserWriter that shaped personal computing. These ...

In 1989, Apple made a shocking decision that erased an important piece of its history—the destruction of 7,000 Apple Lisa computers. This curious episode, which unfolded in Logan, Utah, left many ...

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Apple's age-old Lisa computer has been reimagined as a modern machine, albeit unofficially. Folks at German technology website Curved have revealed a working prototype of a 21st century Apple Lisa, ...