{"id":939,"date":"2013-01-21T15:28:25","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=939"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:39:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:39:46","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-apple-lisa-and-apple-iie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/939\/retro-scan-of-the-week-apple-lisa-and-apple-iie","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Apple Lisa and Apple IIe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/apple_lisa_iie_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/apple_lisa_iie_small.jpg\" alt=\"Apple Lisa and Apple IIe on the cover of Popular Computing - March 1983\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>APPLE&#8217;S BOLD NEW COMPUTERS IN ALL-CAPS<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thirty years ago last Saturday (January 19th, 1983), Apple announced two new computers: the Apple Lisa and the Apple IIe.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/227\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Lisa<\/a> met an early end, leaving behind technology that shaped the entire industry.  The Apple IIe remained a reliable breadwinner during uncertain times in the early life of the Macintosh and remained the flagship member of Apple&#8217;s popular 8-bit computer line until it ended in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the cover of the March 1983 issue of Popular Computing which featured Apple&#8217;s two new machines.  It has always been one of my favorite vintage computer magazine covers.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2025408\/30-years-of-the-apple-lisa-and-the-apple-iie.html\" target=\"_blank\">wrote an article about this anniversary<\/a> for Macworld in case you&#8217;re interested.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Popular Computing, March 1983, cover ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Have you ever used an Apple Lisa?  What did you think about it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APPLE&#8217;S BOLD NEW COMPUTERS IN ALL-CAPS Thirty years ago last Saturday (January 19th, 1983), Apple announced two new computers: the Apple Lisa and the Apple IIe. Ultimately, the Apple Lisa met an early end, leaving behind technology that shaped the entire industry. The Apple IIe remained a reliable breadwinner during uncertain times in the early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,40,21,27,26,10],"tags":[139,83,101,61,355,354,88,107,291],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-macintosh","category-news-current-events","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers","tag-139","tag-anniversaries","tag-apple","tag-apple-ii","tag-apple-iie","tag-apple-lisa","tag-freelance-work","tag-macworld","tag-popular-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}