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> When Steve Jobs saw the Xerox Alto, he thought "well, obviously all personal computers are going to be like this"

a good idea in theory until you see that the original Lisa sold for what would be the inflation-adjusted price of $24,000 USD today.



Got one of those Lisa's on my own dime so I could run Smalltalk-80. It was years before anything else caught up :-)




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