In 1983 Apple launched Lisa – an office computer with one of the first commercial GUIs. Lisa survived on the market only for two years, but paved way for Macintosh and other user-friendly computers. In this spotlight you can find many unique or hard-to-find materials about this groundbreaking machine.

Information

	introduction and basic information
	photographs of Lisa 1 (first set), Lisa 1 (second set), Lisa 2 and both Lisas
	photographs of Office System 1.0, 2.0, 3.1 (first set) and 3.1 (second set)
	screenshots from Office System 1.0 and 3.1
	icons from Office System 1.0 and 3.1
	a complete LisaGuide walkthrough
	photographs of rare secrets and keyboard reference cards
	videos of Lisa in use and the demonstration at CHI 98
	trivia and quotes

Historical articles

	original reviews
	“Apple’s Lisa: A personal office system” (full 26-page report)
	“Apple’s new computers: A major breakthrough” from Personal Computing
	“New from Apple: Lisa and the IIe” – three separate articles from Personal Computing
	“Lisa – Close up and personal” from Softalk
	“Lisa’s debut” from Softalk
	“Apple’s bid to stay in the big time” from Fortune
	“The Lisa Computer System” from Byte
	“Apple’s Lisa” from Personal Computer News
	“Apple announces the Lisa 2” from Byte
	“The Lisa 2: Apple’s ablest computer” from Byte
	reflections on Lisa’s significance
	“Whatever happened to the Lisa?”
	“The legacy of the Lisa”
	“Lisa lives”
	articles on Lisa’s GUI
	“Apple Lisa Graphical Object-Oriented User Interface”
	“The integrated software and user interface of Apple’s Lisa”
	“Lisa’s alternative operating system”
	“The Lisa user interface”
	“A new generation arrives”
	“Of mice and men”
	articles on GUI development
	“Inventing the Lisa user interface”
	“Busy being born”
	“Rosing’s rascals”
	interviews about GUI development
	“An interview with Wayne Rosing, Bruce Daniels, and Larry Tesler”
	“The birth of Lisa”
	“The past, present, and future of the Macintosh desktop”
	teaching to use Lisa
	“LisaLearning”
	“How Apple presents Lisa”
	comparisons
	“The new generation of human-engineered software”
	“The desktop environment”
	miscellaneous
	“Accounting for Lisa and the future”
	“Foxy little Lisa”
	Fortune product of the year award
	“Apple, early officers face trial over Twiggy”

Books (incl. excerpts)

	“The complete book of Lisa”
	“Apple Lisa: A user-friendly handbook”

Guidelines

	“Lisa user interface standards” from 1980
	“Lisa user interface guidelines” from 1983 (fragments)

Exclusive posters

	17 “Know your roots” posters
	two new obituaries

Original advertisements

	“Introducing Lisa” ad
	5 brochures of applications: LisaCalc, LisaGraph, LisaList, LisaTerminal and LisaWrite
	“It took 200 years”, trashcan and Maserati ads
	TV advertisement from 1983
	promotional video from 1983 (15 minutes)

If you have something to add to the above list, please, let me know!

With thanks to Rob Bedeaux, Adam Bravo, David T. Craig, Josh Dersch , Andrew Henning, jupiter2 , Nathan Lineback , Frank Ludolph, James Musheno , Tom Stepleton , Sunder , Edwin Tan, Larry Tesler, Toby Thain and John Woodall .

Further reading: AppleFritter , Binary Dinosaurs , DigiBarn , GUI gallery , Lisa Emulator project , Low End Mac , Making the Apple Mouse , The Mothership , Obsolete Computer Museum , Vision & Reality and Wikipedia .