Found footage: Remembering Lisa

Alfred DiBlasi is at it again. A few months ago, he impressed us with the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh he found on ebay. What's impressive about that? It was still factory sealed. Never opened, never booted, never used. That's the kind of find that makes my beige, vintage heart flutter.

This time around, he's playing with a vintage Lisa in an exhaustive demonstration video. Before booting it up, he takes it apart and discusses the innards, piece by piece.

Next is the money shot as the computer boots up, and Alfred moves through the UI. It's a pretty cool demonstration of a nice piece of Apple history.

Thanks for sharing, Alfred. What's next?

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Source: http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=5DQDZG5jNZk

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Alfred DiBlasi is at it again. A few months ago, he impressed us with the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh he found on ebay. What's...

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Yann

Dave, if you saw the whole thing, notice that Alfred actually says "What's next" :-)

September 07 2008 at 1:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Todd

Thanks for the blast from the past. My wife was a technical writer on the Lisa team (she wrote the developer docs), and I'm sure she'll get a kick out of watching this.

September 04 2008 at 11:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Charles

I will add my own contribution to the Lisa history archives. A couple of years ago, I scanned the Lisa Sales Marketing binder, 204 pages of everything Apple gave to Lisa dealers, including color scans of every Lisa product brochure. It was wildly popular when I posted it on my blog, and it looks like anyone reading this article will enjoy it too.

Read it here:

http://weblog.ceicher.com/archives/2006/05/apple_lisa_sales_marketing_bin.html

September 04 2008 at 6:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Doofguru

HAHA, i just noticed something a 25 year old mac a had a simple paint program standard but my macbook pro with Leopard doesn't.

September 04 2008 at 5:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Feras

i love als videos i was one of them in the live stream. al also has a NeXT cube that still needs booting ... ;)

September 04 2008 at 5:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ffanatic

I had one of these!!! Brings back some great memories.

September 04 2008 at 4:40 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Johnny

Oh, the nostalgia.