The famous Macintosh Picasso logo was developed for the introduction of the original 128k Mac back in 1984. Macintosh “Picasso” Dealer Sign and Packaging Artwork This clear-sided beauty is a highlight of the Mac Museum’s collection. It’s like a real world version of an engineering cutaway drawing! The hard drive and other electronics are long since gone, but the Mac is still working. The right and rear sides have been replaced by clear plexiglass panels, sporting graphics highlighting the HyperDrive components inside. This Mac model was a GCC trade show demo unit. It also cost about the same price as the Macintosh itself, starting at nearly $2200 for the 512k – or $2800 for the 128k version, which upgraded you to 512K along the way. It wedged a 3.5-inch disk, power supply, logic board and fan inside the existing case, and was 7 times faster than Apple’s floppy-port based HD20.
Back in 1985 General Computer Corporation introduced the HyperDrive, an internal 10MB hard drive add-on. VMM Blog: At Last A Working Lisa! Mostly…īefore the Macintosh SE made its debut, there was no internal hard drive available for the compact Mac. The VMM Lisa has an X/Profile Compact Flash adapter installed, to support running the Lisa OS long after the original Widget hard drive has given up the ghost. But the Lisa wasn’t a big seller, cost $10,000, and was ultimately superseded at Apple by the Macintosh – the computer for the rest of us. Apple’s seminal workstation launched the next chapter of computing, and utilized features like pre-emptive multitasking and protected memory that the Mac wouldn’t get for nearly twenty years. Released in 1983, the Lisa was the first commercial computer which utilized the advanced concepts developed at Xerox PARC a decade earlier: the GUI (Graphical User Interface), icons, menus and the mouse. The Lisa is the predecessor to the Macintosh.
Demo Units and Uncommon Collectibles Apple Lisa 2
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