“A single $7,500 bid has been made so far; the model in question is said to be functional and largely intact, for instance including original floppy drives and ROMs as well as a keyboard,” MacNN reports. “Absent from the auction are a mouse, battery and the Lisa system software.”
MacNN reports, “Also missing is a serial number, which along with the claimed origins of the computer suggests that it could be an internal model.”
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I should have held on to mine.
Ha ha oh kinda wish I had the money I love playing with old tech, nice!
It sounds fun until you use it, then you just feel weary, “what happened to my life, how did I get so old?” life is screaming by…
Still have mine. I’ll never get rid of it.
rumor has it, this computer was actually stolen many years ago. the story of his brother is bogus. statute of limitations is over, so its time to sell, plus xmas money is needed
Kind I’d useless without a mouse, not like you can just stop by the Apple store and pick one up.
you look hard enough you can find one at a tag sale in CA. I did. bought it from an old man for $10
One of the oddest memories to have held onto from my childhood is remembering exactly where I was when I first heard about the Lisa, riding in the car with my Dad, listening to All Things Considered. I remember exactly where the car was when the feature on the Lisa was played. I was in high school, and wanted to work with computers more than anything else in the world, and here was this story about a computer that sounded like the coolest thing ever imagined.
Of course, then the Mac came out…
——RM
A single $7,500 bid has been made so far.
It went for $10,000 back in its day.
That was not a good investment.
@Jeff
IIRC, the Lisa used the same mouse as the first Macs.
@LordRobin
I remember first learning about the Lisa from the cover story in <i>BYTE<.i> – June 1983 IIRC.
Almost bought a used Macintosh XL once. (A Lisa jerry-rigged to work with the Macintosh System Software) {the term “Mac OS” came much latter}
I loved the idea working with the Mac on a wider screen, but someone showed up at the last minute and outbid me.
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My only satisfaction was making that other guy pay much more for it than he would have had I not been there.
It would have been fun.
I’ve got a 512ke functional with software in the attic. What are they going for?
The Lisa mouse had a rectangular DE-9 serial connector/port and used a steel ball. This was before the ADB (Apple Desktop Bus) port was used on later Macintosh models.
If you find a mouse from the original Macintosh, it should be interchangeable with the Lisa.
@boulderfrog,
The cool thing about your mac is if you take the cover off you should see the signatures on the inside cover of Steve Jobs as well as Andy Hertzfeild, Jef Raskin, Bill Atkinson, Bruce Horn, and others from the original Mac team. I heard there is even a signature of the “Woz”
I just want to say i trust on apple, and apple is really very well in this market.
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@boulderfrog- they generally fetch $50-$200 depending on condition. I snagged mine locally through craigslist for $15, working, with no screen burn and working System 1-4 floppies
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OMG it’s going for $25,000 right now.
bogus bids
In Microsoft news;
An early Windows computer last week, went for the number of calories it took the trash collector to hoist the beige box into the crushing bin.
It’s reported that a passerby noticed, and uttered a quiet sigh of relief.