The Apple Lisa on the bottom row with various Apple Macs on the top row in the stacks at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. (LiPo Ching/San Jose Mercury News/TNS)
Before there was an iPhone, iMac or Macintosh, Apple had the Lisa computer.
The Lisa computer – which stands for Local Integrated Software Architecture but was also named after Steve Jobs' eldest daughter – was a flop when it released in 1983 because of its astronomical price of US$10,000 (RM40,614) – US$24,700 (RM100,316) when adjusted for inflation. But in the grand scheme of Apple's history, the Lisa computer's software laid the groundwork for what was to be the macOS operating system.
