Remembering 1984 With A Macintosh & Lisa Brochure (With Pics) [Updated]

The ProFile was the 5MB disk that in the brochure is sitting on top of the Lisa. I believe this was also used with the Apple II, but I donit recall.

The 10MB disk was code-named the "Widget" and it was an internal hard drive.

Thanks for the information Larry!

Last week, we brought you a great magazine spread about the Mac, but in 1984 there was another Apple product with a GUI. We are talking about the Lisa, the project that Steve Jobs intended as Appleis premier product line. Mr. Jobsi reportedly wanted to hamstring the Mac in order to keep it from competing with the Lisa, but ended up taking over the Mac project in the long run. Both products were marketed alongside each other for about three years. The Lisa was heavily criticized for costing more than US$10,000 when it was first introduced, and not having much software. The Lisa was eventually rechristened the Macintosh XL until it was unceremoniously dumped, literally, as Appleis remaining Lisa inventory was eventually dumped into a landfill.

Steve from Pittsburgh sent us these great scans from a brochure that featured both the Lisa 2 and the Mac.