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"Last December, along with a
Verge video crew, I found myself wandering
across a snowy mountain of garbage in Logan, Utah. Everyone we’d talked to told
us that Logan was a gorgeous place to visit pretty much anytime
except the
dead of winter. They also told us the landfill wasn’t the most pleasant place
to explore at any time of year. The landfill
in the dead of winter was a real
one-two punch — though the cold probably helped with the smell a little.
But the landfill held a piece of a puzzle that had nagged at us for months: the
fate of the Lisa, Apple’s most iconic failure.
In September 1989, according to a news article, Apple buried about 2,700 unsold
Lisa computers in Logan. The Lisa was released in 1983, and it was Apple’s
first stab at a truly modern, graphically driven computer: it had a mouse,
windows, icons, menus, and other things we’ve all come to expect from
“user-friendly” desktops. It had those features a full year before the release
of the Macintosh. It was also doomed."
Via Kenny Chaffin.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
