The Apple Lisa was created in the early 1980s and was designed to attract business customers. Apple computers designed the Lisa and it was intended to be a personal computer. The Lisa project began around 1978 designed to create a personal computer with a graphical user interface. Around 1982, Steve Jobs joined the Macintosh project because he was forced out of the Lisa project. Steve Jobs named the first personal computer that apple built after his daughter, though apple stated that it was an acronym for Local Integrated Software Architecture.
The Lisa was introduced in January 1983, for the price of $9,995.00. It was the first commercial personal computer to have a graphical user interface and a mouse. The Lisa used a Motorola 68000 CPU which ran at 5 MHz and had 512KB or 1MB ram. It used two 5.25” double-sided floppy disk drives. Each floppy disk had a capacity of about 871 kilobytes. An optional 5 or 10MB hard drive was provided but was intentionally used for the Apple III. Soon, the Lisa 2 came out which used a 3.25” floppy disk drive and had an optional 10MB internal hard drive.
Lisa turned out to be a commercial failure for Apple. IBM PCs the Lisa business because it was inexpensive compared to the Lisa and ran just as good as the Lisa, performance wise. Apple's biggest customer was NASA when the Lisa came out, but they soon encountered problems because the Lisa was discontinued. The Lisa ended and was dumped into the landfills of Logan, Utah in 1989. Apple received a tax write-off for the unsold computers.
