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Apple Brings Back Lisa Veteran

Posted by chrisd on from the is-it-soup-yet dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "eWEEK reports on a memo from Steve Jobs announcing that Apple's education sales and marketing have been combined under the direction of John Couch. Couch was the vice president and general manager in charge of Apple's Lisa project and was frequently at loggerheads with Jobs before exiting the company in 1982."

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  1. Lisa V. by EyesWideOpen · · Score: 2, Funny

    Apple Brings Back Lisa Veteran

    Being someone not too familiar with the older Mac projects (the new ones either for that matter) my first reaction was, "Who is Lisa Veteran?!". I thought maybe she was some high up office type that was let go and brought back or something.

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    1. Re:Lisa V. by Kris_J · · Score: 2

      Where's Fark's "Dumass" tag when you need it?

  2. Re:Couch Potato by Duck_Taffy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, actually, the Lisa started at $15,000 and later dropped to $10,000. Although it was always far more powerful than the Mac during it's lifetime - much more memory, and better expansion capabilities. In fact, with some minor installations, you could turn a Lisa II (which was a free upgrade from an original Lisa) into a Macintosh VX.

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  3. He still around? by anarkhos · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought they buried him along with the Lisas

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  4. Not the only Apple Vetren making a come back by mach_5 · · Score: 3, Informative

    go to http://www.thinksecret.com see their article on Jag, look for the screenshot of the keyboard menu in Jag, you'll see clarus the dogcow is working at Apple again.

    1. Re:Not the only Apple Vetren making a come back by Huge+Pi+Removal · · Score: 2

      Boo Woo! Moof!

      I was really upset (well, quite upset) at the demise of Clarus... hope he's still there in the final release :)

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  5. Re:John Couch by jcr · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Mac had a faster processor and 4 times the ram for about a third the price.

    No, the Lisa had 1 Meg of RAM, and the Mac had 128K.

    IIRC, the original Mac had an 8Mhz 68000, but I don't recall the Lisa's processor speed.

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  6. Re:John Couch by benwaggoner · · Score: 2

    Being a Big Fat Geek, 5 MHz immediately popped into my head. My long-retired Palm Pro put it to shame.

    Y'know, we need a term, measuring the time between when a personal computer comes out, and an equally powerful handheld comes out.

    Y'know
    Apple IIc -> Some HP calculator
    Mac SE -> Palm Pro
    AMD K6 -> iPaq

    The gap is getting smaller. Wonder when my phone will have a 500 MHz G4.

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