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		walrus01 on March 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My New Old Macintosh SE/30 Computer > 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.

earleybird on March 4, 2022 [–]

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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