Editing Apple Lisa (section)

==Reception==
[[File:Apple Computer, 1983 (Lisa).jpg|thumb|An original Lisa is at work at the Apple Convention in Boston, in early 1983.]]
''[[BYTE]]'' previewed the Lisa and wrote in February 1983 that it was "the most important development in computers in the last five years, easily outpacing [the [[IBM Personal Computer|IBM PC]]]". It acknowledged that the {{US$|long=no|9995}} price was high, and concluded "Apple ... is not unaware that most people would be incredibly interested in a similar but less expensive machine. We'll see what happens".<ref name="williams198302">{{cite magazine | title=The Lisa Computer System | magazine=[[Byte (magazine)|BYTE]] | date=February 1983 | access-date=October 19, 2013 | author=Williams, Gregg | pages=33–50 |volume=8 |issue=2 | url=https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1983-02/page/n32/mode/1up}}</ref>

The Lisa 2 was received more favourably by BYTE in December 1984, describing it as possibly "the most underrated machine in the history of the microcomputer industry ... more versatile and powerful than any other machine in its under-$7000 price category". Priced from {{US$|long=no|3495}}, the base model was largely perceived as a "wide-screen Macintosh" with four times the memory of that machine and able to run its software, but nevertheless "the only practical way to run even moderately large Macintosh applications" at that time. Hard disk models were priced from {{US$|long=no|4495}}, and the range of supported hard disk sizes, along with the "large memory", were seen as contributing to the machine's versatility. The provision of a character-based display support was seen as "critical to XENIX and UNIX users", and the availability of these other operating systems also served to differentiate the Lisa from the Macintosh. System performance had also improved from the original Lisa product.<ref name="byte198412_lisa2"/>

The Lisa was a commercial failure, the company's largest since the [[Apple III]] of 1980. Apple sold a total of approximately 10,000<ref name=ogrady/> Lisa machines at {{US$|9995|1983|round=-2|about=yes}} each,<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.technologeek.net/a-look-back-at-apple-products-of-old/|title = A Look Back at Apple Products of Old|date = August 19, 2013|access-date = September 8, 2015|website = Technologeek|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131105121930/http://www.technologeek.net/a-look-back-at-apple-products-of-old/|archive-date = November 5, 2013|url-status = dead}}</ref> generating total sales of {{US$|long=no|100 million}} against a development cost of more than {{US$|long=no|150 million}}.<ref name=ogrady/> The largest Lisa customer was [[NASA]], which used [[LisaProject]] for project management.<ref name="Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson">{{harvnb|Isaacson|2011}}</ref>{{pn|date=January 2025}}{{failed verification|date=January 2025}}

The Lisa 2 and its [[Old World ROM|Mac ROM]]-enabled [[Macintosh XL]] version are the final two releases in the Lisa line, which was discontinued in April 1985.<ref>"Back in Time", A+ Magazine, Feb 1987: 48–49.</ref> The Macintosh XL is a hardware and software conversion kit to effectively reboot Lisa into Macintosh mode. In 1986, Apple offered all Lisa and XL owners the opportunity to return their computer and pay {{US$|1498|long=no}}, in exchange for a [[Macintosh Plus]] and [[Hard Disk 20]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 12, 1986 |title=Votes For And Against The NetWorkers |page=13 |work=Semaphore Signal |issue=26 |url=http://www.semaphorecorp.com/ss/ss26.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19971119142545/http://www.semaphorecorp.com/ss/ss26.html |archive-date=November 19, 1997}}</ref> Reportedly, 2,700 working but unsold Lisa computers were buried in a landfill.<ref>{{cite web |last=Tiwari |first=Aditya |date=April 21, 2016 |title=Why Are 2700 Apple Lisa Computers Buried in a Landfill? |url=https://fossbytes.com/why-2700-apple-lisa-computers-are-buried-in-a-landfill/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230118185742/https://fossbytes.com/why-2700-apple-lisa-computers-are-buried-in-a-landfill/ | archive-date=January 18, 2023 |url-status=dead | website=Fossbytes}}</ref>