January 18, 2007 - Old Computer Trivia

On January 19, 1983, Apple Computer announced the first commercial personal computer to have a Graphical User Interface and a mouse. It had a 12 inch black and white video monitor, 1 MB of RAM, a 5 MB hard drive and ran at 5 MHz. It sold for $9995.

The Apple Lisa turned out to be a commercial failure due to its high price and the release of the Apple Macintosh in 1984. The Lisa was discontinued in 1986.

TRIVIA QUESTION:

What did Apple do in 1989 with 2700 unsold Lisa computers?


TRIVIA ANSWER:

Buried them in a landfill in Logan, Utah and got a tax write-off on the land they rented for it.


Thanks to all who checked in to tonight's net (shown below with their answers) and a Gold Star to Ted, W6DTS and Louie, AD6UP for getting the correct answer!

- - = = - - NET CHECK IN's - - = = - -

* WB6A - Pat - Gave them to North Korea
* AC6AJ - Lee - Baked them in a pie - an Apple Pie!
* WB6ATV - Ron - Trashed them in a dumpster
* KE6CZH - Robert - Donated them to schools
* KG6DBL - Bill - Trashed them
* W6DTS - Ted - Buried them in a landfill
* K6FCC - Khalil - Took them apart to build Macs
* N6HY - Ernie - Scrapped them
* KB6IS - Madeline - Gave them to libraries
* KD6JEV - John - Gave them to schools
* KG6KTC - Leon - Gave them to schools
* NY6L - Jay - Gave them to schools
* K6LMN - Roger - Gave them to schools
* KD6NIW - Oliver - Gave them to Bill Gates
* W6NVY - Gary - Gave them to Bill Gates
* KG6NWJ - Barry - Gave them to schools
* KD6OBM - Jason - Threw them away
* KF6PIH - Scott - Gave them to schools
* K6QVZ - Joe - Gave them to China
* KG6RDA - Sidney -
* AD6UP - Louie - Put them in a landfill
* KF6YBM - Henry - ?
* KF6ZQM - Harry - Sent them to China
* N6NGU - Lee - Took my real first name!

That's it for this week. Thanks, again, to all who checked in!

73, de N6CIZ