William Poor

I recently came home from a week-long vacation to discover that a colony of ants had taken up residence inside my Sonos Play:1. It was shocking and gross, but I also got weirdly fascinated by the whole situation.

After seven months of reporting and production, we’re excited to finally publish our documentary, Lisa’s Final Act: how Apple invented its future by burying its past. It’s the story of how Apple tried multiple times to kill the Lisa, the big sister of the Macintosh and a pioneering flop of a computer.

Check out the trailer for our latest documentary, Lisa’s Final Act. It’s the story of how Steve Jobs’ revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief second life before being buried for good... literally. Coming soon!

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.