The Lisa, named after Steve Jobs’ daughter, had its debut on January 19, 1983. It cost $9,995, which was many thousand dollars more than IBM PCs with command-line interfaces. Apple anticipated that the GUI would compensate for the high price and slow performance, but the laptop did not sell.
In 1984, Apple introduced the new Lisa computer at the same time as the Macintosh, which cost $2,495. However, the Mac gained popularity, and Lisa was eventually abandoned. To summarise, there can be no Mac without Lisa, and the machine’s history is intriguing. You may learn more about Lisa’s history on the website of the Computer History Museum.
