Watch our investigative documentary about the secret burial of the Apple Lisa.
. We had dreams of booting up a piece of Apple history after ceremoniously rescuing it from decades of municipal waste.Unfortunately, standing atop Mount Lisa, it was clear a resurrection wasn’t in the cards. We received a light warning from a bulldozer operator . We chatted with him a little and asked where the Lisas might be. He pointed at the depths of the hill — 1989, he said, was “way down at the bottom.
But the main character in our story of the last Lisas is a former computer salesman named Bob Cook. In the mid-’80s, Bob was an Apple reseller who saw a novel sales opportunity: old computers. The first generations of personal computers were becoming obsolete, and Bob went into business selling them at a discount. He struck unique deals to take old, sometimes used inventory off Apple’s hands on consignment: first about 3,500 Apple III computers in 1985 and then the last 7,000 Lisas a year later.
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