My Mac Pro is named after the original dream machine, LISA. I will wonder until the day I die why anyone bought an IBM PC when LISA was available. A Mac in 1984 would have been nice but LISA was such a giant leap in what a computer was and what it was for -it had other applications besides Lotus 1..2..3...- that one could actually do something more than stare at a low res display with either original orange or later green on black.
Sure, it was very expensive but far less than the Xerox machine that was the direct product of the work at P.A.R.C. and, more importantly, the company that made it, still made it and still supported it. At a time of command line interfaces, LISA could make you swoon with a dazzling resolution and textures. When the ugliness of the IBM PC took over a whole desk, LISA gave you a sleek integrated box with more power to boot!
The one thing LISA did not have that the original 1984 Mac did was the cordura nylon bag that you could pack your Mac into and take it wherever you went. Still, LISA either had room for or came with a factory hard drive (something almost unheard of at the time) and, if I am not mistaken, LISA was the first with a hard floppy though it still had a floppy floppy LOL!!
If I could not have a LISA, I would want an original 1984 Mac with all the signatures (If WOZ's wasn't embossed inside the case then, with a large aluminum plate with his signature laser etched on to it) inside the case.
If I could not have that then I would need a G3 Cube to look at -wasn't it gorgeous?
I drooled over MY LISA, now on my desk for at least a year before I took the $$Plunge$$ and she is very very sweet and loving but it was her ?? great grandmother that once held my heart.
too poetic? maybe creepy? Yes, I knew I could not have sex with her LOL! Yes, I really really wanted one but there was no way that it was going to happen because BIG BLUE was BIG BLUE and that Hippy Upstart in Cupertino wasn't going to last... who had the last laugh?!