{"id":32745,"date":"2023-01-20T16:27:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T16:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/20\/apple-just-released-code-for-its-40-year-old-lisa-computer\/"},"modified":"2023-01-20T16:28:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T16:28:21","slug":"apple-just-released-code-for-its-40-year-old-lisa-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/20\/apple-just-released-code-for-its-40-year-old-lisa-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Just Released Code for Its 40-Year-Old \u201cLisa\u201d Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Lisa<\/a> was Apple\u2019s first pc with a graphical desktop interface, predating the Macintosh by a yr. Now, 40 years later, you possibly can see precisely how the pc labored.<\/p>\n

Apple launched the Lisa pc on January 19, 1983, as a high-end workstation pc with a mouse (a brand new idea on the time), a desktop interface, and bundled workplace productiveness software program. It finally wasn\u2019t a profitable product, partially due to the sky-high worth of\u00a0$9,995 (about $30,000 in 2022 {dollars}), however the Lisa laid the groundwork for the much more successful Macintosh computer<\/a> that was launched a yr later.<\/p>\n

The Pc Historical past Museum has partnered with Apple to launch the supply code for the Lisa\u2019s software program, together with its working system and bundled functions. A lot of the code is written in Pascal<\/a>, an early programming language courting again to 1970, which was additionally used for a number of the Mac\u2019s early software program. There have already been a couple of fascinating discoveries within the supply code, together with references to a Lisa model called \u201cPepsi\u201d<\/a> (which could be the Lisa 2\/10<\/a>), about eleven occurrences of the F-word<\/a>, and some different entertaining comments<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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