Of course, "portable" is relative in this case, since the SX-64 weighs around 22lbs (10kg), and needs to be plugged into a wall outlet.
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Released in early 1984 for $995, the SX-64 is considered the first portable computer to be equipped with a color monitor. The SX-64 () was intended as a 'trans-portable' version of the popular Commodore 64 (). I figure that if I hadn't been there, the Lisa probably would've ended up in a scrapyard. :D I went back some time later to get something I'd left behind, I saw some scrappers loading a truck with stuff from the pile. Sure enough, the parking lot was filled with all sorts of computer stuff, including an Apple Lisa 2! I immediately loaded it in my car, along with a few other computers, and got the heck outta Dodge. :headscratch: I waited several minutes, then poked my head out of the store. When informed that at least some of these computers had value to them, the guys replied that they didn't care, they just wanted it all gone. :eek:Īfter being told by store employees that they couldn't buy the computers due to being too old to support, the guys asked if they could just leave them in the parking lot. When asked what they had, the guys started rattling off the names of various vintage computers, including Apple IIe, IBM PCjr, and Apple Lisa. I was hanging around in a local computer surplus store looking for memory for an old iMac, when a couple of guys showed up looking to sell some computers to the store. The story of how I found my Lisa (actually a Lisa 2, modified to act like a Macintosh Plus) is rather unbelievable. When the Macintosh () was released a year later, the death knell was sounded for the Lisa, and after attempts to improve sales, several of them ended up being buried in a Utah landfill. Released in 1983, it retailed for around $10,000, and that combined with a lack of third-party support lead to low sales. Anyway, I'll get the thread started off with a couple of pics of some of the rarer machines I own:Īs some may know, the Apple Lisa () was Apple's very first computer to be equipped with a graphical user interface. As you may have seen on my website (), I've amassed a collection of several dozen, stretching from ~1976 to 1994 or so (not sure what the cutoff would be most of them are pre-'90s, at the least). After some of the responses in this thread (), I figured I'd create another thread for discussion of 'vintage' computers.