Comment by wmil
6 years ago
There's one lesson here about debugging problems with unintuitive solutions.
There's a second lesson here about not trusting sales people.
6 years ago
There's one lesson here about debugging problems with unintuitive solutions.
There's a second lesson here about not trusting sales people.
It turned out to be un-sellable, not even one unit sold. It was smooth and pretty but everyone was already used to the choppy but crisp and fast CRT block fonts and static character arrays of the era for text apps. AutoCAD people were already used to the characteristic 'redraw and blink' stuttering behavior of other computer brands' graphic cards and high resolution displays, which typically displayed on their own additional monitor.
With its extremely high price point and crude software available Lisa was unable to win anyone over.