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The following photographs of Apple Lisa rarities are courtesy of John Woodall of Vintage Micros Link points to external site.

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The picture showing the addition of LisaTerminal to the original suite of six applications. The program was released on a Twiggy.
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An official, conceptual drawing on how to pack a Lisa. However, no shipped Lisas were ever packed this way.
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Some screenshots of LisaTest program that was never made available to customers, and might have never even been officially released. The program was issued on a Twiggy floppy disk.
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The main menu of the program.
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This is the screen shown after invoking Hints from menu.
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The screen showing available tests.
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The internal label from a box containing motherboards for Lisa. Worth noting is the “Pepsi mother” note as a in-joke reference to John Sculley – the president and CEO of Apple from 1983 to 1993, and before that a president of Pepsi Cola USA.

Also, a green outline is that of Signapore. Apple computers were made in Signapore, in the Ang Mo Kio factory until the 1990s, when the plant was shut down due to excessive cost and rising wages, and is now primarily used as a warehouse and office building.
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The Lisa Apple-Net Card, never offered to the public. The card presumably would allow to network up to six Lisa systems.
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A Apple-Net Hub where the connections were made.
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A very rare Twiggy drive that actually has the word “Twiggy” printed on a component (bottom left corner).
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The prototype front panel (above) with a different bezel than the production equivalent (below). Note the strange design of the emblem. (This bezel can also be seen on one of Bill Atkinson’s polaroids.)
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This is the close-up of brightness and focus control on the back panel of production Lisa...
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...while this is how they looked like in the prototype (with letters instead of icons).
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Lisa keyboard, production version.
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Lisa keyboard, prototype version. Notice the Command keys, the big Return key, the Alpha Lock and a straight plug connector. (An even earlier version of the keyboard can be seen on one of Bill Atkinson’s polaroids.)
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Lisa prototype keyboard, alphanumeric part.
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Lisa prototype keyboard, keypad.
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Lisa prototype keyboard, plug connector.
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This is the case top of the last Lisa ever produced, signed by the technicians on the line (confirmed as authentic by one of them). Please note the date – 30th May 1985 – which is different than the one often found on the Internet.
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The close-up of the case top.

Page added on 22nd January 2005, and updated on 21st February 2005.

With thanks to John Woodall and Edwin Tan.

Copyright © 2002-2006 Marcin Wichary, unless stated otherwise.