Apple Lisa Handbook

[Ray Arachelian]

It's a great read indeed.  Some of the historical parts come from "West 
of Eden", which along with
"The Little Kingdom" are well worth a read, but both are out of print.

http://www.amazon.com/West-Eden-Innocence-Apple-Computer/dp/0140093729/
http://www.amazon.com/Little-Kingdom-Private-Story-Computer/dp/0688039731/

I've recently read this:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Apple-Way/dp/B000JMKPE0/
The Apple Way by Jeffrey L. Cruikshank which opens up with a couple of 
pages about why the Lisa failed commercially.  I'm not quite sure that I 
agree with all of the text there.  Note that there isn't too much detail 
regarding the Lisa in this book.  It's mostly about strategy.

There's also a wealth of details about Lisa (and Mac) prices, hardware 
and software reviews and other stuff here: 
http://www.semaphorecorp.com/ss/toc.html
This was the Semaphore Signal newsletter, which started out as a Lisa 
newsletter and moved on to the original Mac.

(and of course my own FAQ: http://lisafaq.sunder.net  - Michael's book 
is listed here:  http://lisafaq.sunder.net/lisafaq-hs_book.html )


Some folks capitalize LISA, following the official Apple mantra, I don't 
- well, in some places even Apple itself uses "Lisa" and not "LISA".   
Yeah, it was supposed to be an acronym, but it was a tortured one at 
best (Local Integrated Software Architecture); if you look at the Lisa 
handwritten logo, the i,s, and a are lowercase, so there isn't much to 
the acronym except perhaps plausible deniability.  :-)  Michael's book 
does so in just the title.


Sellam Ismail wrote:
> This cat Michael Posner compiled a book called, "The Apple Lisa Handbook".  
> He's an attorney by day and a geek by night.
>