The following photographs of Apple Lisa were shot and annotated by Tom Stepleton , are published here with permission, and are licensed under a Creative Commons License.

	On the left: an Apple Lisa 1 with 5 MB ProFile drive. On the right: an Apple Lisa 2/10. The Lisa 1 was (arguably) the first computer sold with a graphical user interface. It was released in May, 1983.
	Left: an Apple Lisa 1 with 5 MB ProFile drive. Right: an Apple Lisa 2/10.
	An Apple Lisa 1 with 5 MB ProFile drive. This computer was manufactured on July 29, 1983. Note the mouse with the narrow single button. The two 5.25” drives are Twiggy drives: unusual 880K Apple media never seen in any other computer. Found to be extremely unreliable, the Twiggy drives were soon replaced with a single 400K 3.5” diskette drive in the 1984 Lisa 2 model. Apple offered free upgrades from the Lisa 1 to the Lisa 2, which is why few Lisa 1s exist today.
	An Apple Lisa 2/10. The 2/10 features an internal 10 MB “Widget” drive and a more modern Macintosh style mouse. As the cheaper Macintosh drastically outsold the Lisa in sales, Apple began selling Lisa 2s with a Macintosh emulation layer for people who needed the Lisa’s large memory (1 MB minus space for the Macintosh ROMs) and storage (5 or 10 MB) space for their Macintosh applications. The “Macintosh XL” was sold from 1984 (or maybe 85) to 1986, and this computer was one of them. In 1987, Apple buried their vast stock of unsold Lisas and Lisa parts in an Orem, Utah landfill.
	Computers have come a long way in 18 years. Some things haven’t changed much, though. The Lisa, which was extremely advanced for 1983, had many features that weren’t common on other computers until well over a decade later. It took some time to boot these Lisas – stiction was making it difficult for the hard drives to operate. After some time, everything loosened up and the Lisas ran well. In the future, the Lisas will be exercised more often to keep them in working order.
	Both Lisas running. Note illuminated power switches.
	Dramatic Apple Lisa photograph.
	Inserting a homemade Twiggy diskette into the second Twiggy drive. Surely this is more worthwhile employment for magnetic media than holding version 2.0 of Visual Basic. Observant viewers have already noticed something unusual about this floppy diskette...
	Here is the homemade Twiggy in front of the Lisa 1. Note the two holes for the read/write heads, which appeared on both sides of the disk, along with other perforations. Apple made an extremely unusual floppy diskette when they created the Twiggy: see Apple’s Twiggy Disks by Eric Smith for interesting details. Tom Stepleton