User's Manual, MacWorks, the Macintosh Environment for the Lisa System
date: label: Date made
content: 1984
name: label: maker
content: Apple Computer, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: The Apple Lisa introduced the graphic user interface (GUI) into the Apple Computer Corporation's line of personal computers. Instead of using only text-based commands, users could employ pictorial icons displayed on the screen to initiate operations. Officially, "Lisa" stood for "Local Integrated Software Architecture," but it was also the name of Apple Co-Founder Steve Jobs's daughter. This computer was also Job's "baby," as he championed its creation and believed it would revolutionize personal computing. Apple spent four years and $50 million to develop it, but it turned out to be a commercial flop, in large part because of the $10,000 per unit cost. Only 80,000 were eventually sold. The Lisa is most important historically as the computer that pioneered concepts later used in the far more successful Macintosh.
label: Description
content: This document was the basic user's manual for the Macintosh computer, which followed the Lisa. However, MacWorks could also be loaded and run on the Lisa. The manual has four sections: Learning Macintosh, Finding out more about Macintosh, Using the Finder, and Reference. The manual covered basic operating system commands and processes.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Roslyn Lang
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.3022.01
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content: 2005.3022.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 2005.3022
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Documentation
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 7 in x 1/4 in; 21.59 cm x 17.78 cm x .635 cm