Hawkins Lisa History

By the way, many Apple documents became public record as a result of a shareholder lawsuit around 1985. I am sure if you make inquiries you could locate many interesting documents including the Lisa MRD. It's almost a bible of personal computing. Best of luck with your project, and by all means check out 3DO! Regards, T~~ Trip Hawkins President and CEO The 3DO Cumpan)' MR. TRIP HAWKINS PRESIDENT AND CEO. THE 3DO COMPANY 600 GALVESTON DRIVE REDWOOD CITV. CA 94063 /?ece,'Veef= (}3 /{Ar (fff Re: Apple Lisa computer Dear Mr. Hawkins: Thank you very much for the generous reply to my recent letter concerning the origins of the Lisa computer. The remarks you made in your letter of 07 February were fascinating reading. I plan to incorporate them into the revision of my Lisa legacy paper. If you can answer some more questions about the Lisa I would be very appreciative. These wi 11 be the last questions I have for you since I assume you have more pressing matters at hand, e.g. running 3DO. I've enclosed a SASE to make this reply easier (or you can e-·mai I me at my CompuServe address in the letterhead)= 0) May I make your letter available to others with an interest in the Lisa? '{ e 5 l) Who came up with LISA= 1.ocal Integrated ~oftware Architecture? I assume uo~.Ldid. A T Jowr rt.IA<~ 2) Were there ever other names for the Lisa. besides5~or example. ~~l:a~J.e...vt.u, 3) I noticed that Apple changed its corporate phone number afound 1983 to end in 1016 which is the A-line trap value in binary that Lisa (and Macintosh) programmers use for making system calls. Was this change do~ring the Lisa's development? Were you involved with this change? t.1 v wtU 908 /IJ/O -fin as {~ tfU T ~'1 re~ 1N.. pkevte. rr;c, v.idJ. ~ h~ I 'f~3 .' Thanks for the comment about the Lisa MAD. I wi II look around and see if I can find copy. FYI. I have a copy of the Lisa PIP and found that a very interesting read. Good luck at 3DO. Sincerely, 0,, -~7 /'/? . /-r-1,~ /~ /. David T. Craig {f,e . / IQ . we_~;f~f-1 [b<- fvf-;f WtJt! ttfw415 -h ''[,-,. {J,.,jed" 1;./Y'____ Wednesday. February 23. 199'1 J: r~~ ~ u,l/ ;{- A-ppfe Q!!! Apple Lisa Historical Info from Trip Hawkins 21 Apr ii 1994 -- David T. Craig The following information was provided by Owen W. Linzmayer of San Francisco, CA via CompuServe: David, April 21, 1994 I'm pretty busu finishing up mu b~ but I just got a nice missive rrcm Trip Hawkins that I tha!ght uw might like. --owz. I worked for Steve Jobs until Lisa was taken away from him in the fall of 1980, on the eve of Apple's IPO. A few months after that, Steve took over Jef Raskin's project, contirned to call It Macintosh, and totally changed it into Steve's vision of a scaled-down Lisa. All of the core ideas were the same for both Lisa and Mac. Steve did have some legitimate concerns about Lisa being too high-end in its conception, but Ironically over time the Mac grew to have as much memory and cost as Lisa had. I have a huge amount of re…