Re: Tips for making Twiggy images

Hi Tom,

concerning your question:

> This is pretty interesting, but also confusing---some Chicagoan was
> still using a Lisa 1 for Mac development in early 1984, I guess?

Yes, you're right. But not in 1984, because the Mac's concept and system-software devellopment started in late 1982 (theoretical) and mid 1983 (technical) with a small group of guys not knowing that their project would lead to a product, which will be sold by Apple. At that time not even Steve Jobs did know about that efforts to create an all-in-one computer, which wasn't so expensive as Lisa was. Perhaps the team itself didn't know that at that time, I guess. Both teams, the huge Lisa-team and the very very small team later known as the Mac-team - practically it wasn't a team, but a few guys, who worked out some of their ideas - worked to gather some ideas for a new computer after the Apple III. Their aim wasn't to create something, which had to be so successful as the Apple II. The aim of the Lisa-group was that. The aim of the at that time not even named Mac-team wasn't clear at all, because they had no official order to do that. They did, because they were free to do so... not because they were under commercial pressure or pressure to deliver something at the end-of-the-week meeting.
Funny, but true, the gain to create a super-computer like the Apple Lisa, with very high costs but technical highlights, didn't seem the right way. The time had come to sell a cheap but state-to-the-art computer, such as the Apple II had been 5 years before. The decade of hardware-cards was out, the time had come to have solutions by software. A huge software-marked started when launching the Macintosh in 1984. Lisa never had such a wide software choice. Thats the fact, because this computer was so successful and Lisa never was, when only regarding the numbers of sales. ... and the fact, that Steve Jobs found out, what the Mac-group had done till then and recognized that this seems to be his "perfect thing" compared to his last "perfect thing" the Apple Lisa.

greetings Tom, from Bavaria

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