Jobs Offers Apple Lisa Early Adopters Store Credit


	Jobs Offers Apple Lisa Early Adopters Store Credit

kmakice

9-11-2007 6:43 AM

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satire, apple lisa, early adopters, iphone, store credit

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9-11-2007 10:09 AM

bignosemousie

Apple released the Lisa in January of 1983 for $9,995, and the similar Macintosh was released a year later for $2,495.

That is pretty rotten.

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