{"id":40261,"date":"2023-08-07T22:47:28","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T02:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=40261"},"modified":"2023-08-07T22:48:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T02:48:00","slug":"lisas-secret-burial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/07\/lisas-secret-burial\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa&rsquo;s Secret Burial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rZjbNWgsDt8\">The Verge<\/a> (video):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rZjbNWgsDt8\"><p>Sabotage, hired goons, and a landfill in Utah: this is a story about the life, death, and afterlife of Apple&rsquo;s most pioneering flop, the Lisa computer. How it inspired generations of computers to follow; how Steve Jobs championed it, then turned against it; and how an outsider gave it another chance&#8230;before Apple closed the door on the Lisa forever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sun_Remarketing\">Sun Remarketing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sun_Remarketing\"><p>Sun Remarketing bought the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MacWorks_XL\" title=\"MacWorks XL\">MacWorks XL<\/a> emulator from Apple in the 1980s to spur sales of the Lisa computers by making them able to run Macintosh applications.  Following the introduction of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Macintosh_Plus\" title=\"Macintosh Plus\">Macintosh Plus<\/a> by Apple with its enhanced 128K ROM, many new Macintosh applications no longer worked under <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MacWorks_XL\" title=\"MacWorks XL\">MacWorks XL<\/a>.  To clear its remaining inventory, Sun Remarketing took the bold step of underwriting the development of a new emulator called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MacWorks_Plus\" title=\"MacWorks Plus\">MacWorks Plus<\/a> which fully supported the 128K ROM on the Lisa hardware, and packaged it together as the Lisa Professional.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/09\/clascal-in-the-lisa-source-code\/\">Clascal in the Lisa Source Code<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/16\/joining-apple-computer-40-years-ago\/\">Joining Apple Computer 40 Years Ago<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Verge (video): Sabotage, hired goons, and a landfill in Utah: this is a story about the life, death, and afterlife of Apple&rsquo;s most pioneering flop, the Lisa computer. How it inspired generations of computers to follow; how Steve Jobs championed it, then turned against it; and how an outsider gave it another chance&#8230;before Apple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-08-08T02:47:31Z","apple_news_api_id":"3b92b11f-9ea6-49b2-8da7-30a8cd4e9279","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-08-08T02:48:02Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AO5KxH56mSbKNpzCozU6SeQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,295,516,30,173],"class_list":["post-40261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-history","tag-lisa","tag-mac","tag-stevejobs"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40263,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40261\/revisions\/40263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}