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A peek inside the Lisa, Apple’s alternate-history Mac.

The Apple Lisa was released in 1983, a year before the Macintosh changed personal computing forever. The Lisa was quietly discontinued after just a couple years... but boy, the Mac owes a lot to its predecessor. We got a chance to sit down and play with a Lisa — here’s what we learned.

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