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Apple Lisa changed computing over 40 years ago, but the world didn’t notice

Just about everything the Mac brought to technology was already there a year before with the failed Apple Lisa, that launched on January 19, 1983.

Steve Jobs with an Apple Lisa
Steve Jobs with an Apple Lisa

It wasn’t a public launch, it wasn’t anything like the kind of presentation you now expect from Apple. The Apple Lisa was unveiled at the Flint Center, later where the Mac, the iMac, the iPhone 6, and the Apple Watch were later.

That famous venue was permanently closed for demolition in 2019.

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