Re: Tips for making Twiggy images

Thanks for the historical note! But my reason for saying 1984 was the copyright date listed for the "MacIntosh Resource Compiler Version 5.1" :-)

--Tom
On Feb 11, 2015 1:43 AM, "tommoni" <tommoni_at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:

> 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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