Using an Apple Lisa 2 for the first time

[@joannerevill9592]

I can remember the day my father bought home a Lisa for the weekend and said "This will kill the Apple II". It's so nice to see one in working condition. Ground breaking for the day. Great video.

[@damianrieger4354]

My first job after college, I did Pascal programming on a Lisa.

[@MrKrimstah]

Thanks Bruce good to see you branching out and providing new content

[@401ksolar]

Now if you could find a digitizing pad and tablet, along with the video toaster for the output, you could overlay hand entered art over video like we did at the TV studio with a Lisa

[@Mac84]

This was a very interesting watch! We have so many thoughts on how an operating system like this should work based on a foundation of experience with the Macintosh, but it was a bit different! Very cool, thanks for sharing.

[@frankiii9165]

Yeah I think this is one of the most complete Lisa tour on the internet!

[@ActionRetro]

I love the Lisa OS's font - best lower case "v" in the business.

[@RonsCompVids]

It's always interesting to see all these early concepts and what was reworked for Macintosh.

[@edretrotech7559]

Thanks for sharing this, Bruce. Watching your video was my first time experiencing a Lisa:)

[@DavidStahlOLDHAPPyMACs]

Very neat Bruce always wanted to see how the Lisa worked with the eary graphical user interface great video bruce

[@burrocakes8048]

Thanks for sharing the Lisa os. I doubt I’d have experienced it otherwise. What an interesting way to design an office suite.

[@MacCrafter707]

Nice to see the evolution of the OS.

[@tappdarden]

Great video! I imagine they were trying to go with a document centric paradigm vs an application centric one. and that might be a source of your confusion. (and MINE!) I think the Newton was also more document centric. OpenDOC was gonna be also more doc centric I think..... Interesting how we kinda stuck to application centric. iOS even went so far as building walls between apps.

[@Mr.Macintosh]

Awesome video Bruce!!! The Lisa is a really unique and rare computer. I enjoyed the walkthrough 👍

[@spitzane]

Love your work bro. I’ve learned heaps of soldering tricks! Just wanted to be the first to post. ;-)

[@SnapImaX]

8:36 Cat cameo on the left! :3

[@leereyno]

Wonderful demo. I'd read years ago that the Lisa was unforgivably slow. Now I see what they mean. It shouldn't take 5 seconds to fire up a clock program.

[@meatmanek]

Interesting to see the UI elements in LisaDraw that you still see almost unchanged today in other drawing programs - group/ungroup, send to back, etc. I'm also surprised to see triple click for selecting a line of text. I thought I remembered that showing up in the 90s.

[@OddObsolete]

This is really fascinating! Did not know the Lisa was so different from early Macs.

[@aa-au]

Thank you for this video, as this is my first time around an Apple Lisa too! I also notice that you said 'apple'+'a' for the shortcut for select all, and that was because there was an Apple symbol on the 'apple' key on the keyboard. It's obviously now the command key, but I still say 'apple'+'a" today, as I'm from old school too...

[@MrPnew1]

Thanks Bruce, that’s history right there

[@TheRetroMess]

My first thought about "tearing off a piece" was to click and drag off the window from a blank/white area in the window or something? LOL Very skeuomorphic thinking I guess.

[@frankiii9165]

That's really really great! Interesting comprehensive tour of the "office system". Have you thought to try CP/M-68k with GEM in it? I think Atari ST's TOS is just CP/M with GEM, so probably Atari ST programs could work in the Lisa...

[@Squonk06]

The large number of Untitled documents indicates that a previous user was similarly confused by the stationary tearing off system. Either that or they didn't bother or didn't know they could rename files.

[@KarstenJohansson]

I wish you used the terminal. It would be interesting to see what's there. I can't fathom why the terminal starts by "tearing" off a sheet like the other, more paper oriented applications.

[@darkwinter6028]

It was a very remarkable system, but badly needed more speed. Were I designing the hardware, I would have added a separate memory system for graphics and integrated a QuickDraw accelerator into the MMU (basically a blitter with region support and registers that would allow it to perform line and arc drawing operations). Bear in mind that the MMU was already custom silicon.

[@GarthBeagle]

I like the Calculator!

[@lachlancorben1720]

Hi I was wondering would you know hot to use a programming chip to reprogram a bios on a motherboard

[@CanadianComputerCollector]

This is super cool

[@JasonJones-br3or]

'Let's not concern ourselves with 1990s logic...'. Heh, that was funny, and apt.

[@mikek1187]

The individual who downvoted this video is clearly tired of life.

[@darkwinter6028]

I figured that they were aiming for the thumbs-up but just missed.

[@MichaelOrmsby]

Ah, word processing in the early 1980s. You'd spend 75 percent of the time trying to figure out how to initiate basic functionality. 😄

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

LisaEm

[@OmegaPrime76]

Such boring content...

[@BranchusCreations]

Yep.