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<blockquote data-quote="meltbanana314" data-source="post: 77254">Yeah, every Mac head here should know about the Lisa. It was something like $12,000 and it didn't sell very well. The operating systems got better, and the computers got cheaper. When Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard, he went to work for Altair computers. At this time, the computer industry was more incestuous than it is today. Outside of the big corps like IBM and HP, everybody in the computer industry knew each other and had probably worked with each other at some point. This includes Gates &amp; Co. who left Altair and formed Micro Soft, who wrote COBOL, Basic, and FORTRAN compilers. When IBM wanted to enter the PC market - Microsoft bought what was to be the first version of MSDOS from a little company (Seattle Computer) for practically nothing. Microsoft made other products like Word and stuff for the Mac while quietly improving MSDOS. They didn't *work* for Apple, but they had a symbiotic business relationship. When the Microsoft guys saw some of the secret stuff that Apple was working on (the GUI which was &quot;stolen&quot; from Xerox) - they took it for Windows.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="meltbanana314, post: 77254"] Yeah, every Mac head here should know about the Lisa. It was something like $12,000 and it didn't sell very well. The operating systems got better, and the computers got cheaper. When Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard, he went to work for Altair computers. At this time, the computer industry was more incestuous than it is today. Outside of the big corps like IBM and HP, everybody in the computer industry knew each other and had probably worked with each other at some point. This includes Gates & Co. who left Altair and formed Micro Soft, who wrote COBOL, Basic, and FORTRAN compilers. When IBM wanted to enter the PC market - Microsoft bought what was to be the first version of MSDOS from a little company (Seattle Computer) for practically nothing. Microsoft made other products like Word and stuff for the Mac while quietly improving MSDOS. They didn't *work* for Apple, but they had a symbiotic business relationship. When the Microsoft guys saw some of the secret stuff that Apple was working on (the GUI which was "stolen" from Xerox) - they took it for Windows. [/QUOTE]

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