Best part is, Apple isn’t slowing it down.
Thanks to the Computer History Museum, Apple’s Lisa OS will live again. And instead of the $10,000 in 80’s money it cost you back then, it will run you nothing.
The legendary OS was among the earliest Graphical User Interfaces in computing. And recently, the museum got their hands on the source code, with the conversion under Apple review. As museum curator Al Kossow announced, once the review is done, they plan to release a text on the significance of Lisa OS, before making the code available to all users in 2018.
The Lisa was not a huge success for Apple at the time. While it was the first computer on the market to have a GUI, it was prohibitively expensive: $25,000 wasn’t something to sneeze at. Also, their marketing wasn’t all that hot at that point. Still it’s not every day you get to tool around with something of historical significance, so it’s pretty cool that it will be available to the public.
Source: Gizmodo
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