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Win a Prize Pack from Simple

Losey

4/6/2009 8:10 PM

Your friends over at Simple have decided to hook up on Vital BMX member with one dope prize package. Why? Who cares? It's great products from Simple for free, so get on this! Here's a list at what's up for grabs:

• Jetset Bars (8.5 rise - white)
• System stem (green)
• Copenhagen sprocket (25t - green)
• Front row seat (hollow chromoly rails)
• Corpo shirt
• Repeat shirt
$215.00 retail

So how do you win this prize pacage? It's really simple... Go to the Simple website and hit up the Contact page. Then come back to this page and post your answer to this question in the Comments box below: What brand of computer is shown on the contact page at the Simple site?

There may be extra points if you can name the model, too! This prize is going to be given away next week, so get moving!

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big bubba
4/7/2009 3:35 PM

my answer would have to be It's an Apple Lisa and it was introduced on 24 January 1984, the Lisa 2 adopted the same 400 KB 3.5" floppy drive as the simultaneously introduced Macintosh. It was available with the same 5 MB ProFile hard drive as the Lisa 1 or an internal 10 MB hard drive. Best of all for Lisa 1 owners, the Lisa 2 was available as a free upgrade.
The Lisa 2 was repackaged as the Macintosh XL in January 1985, then discontinued in April 1985. With MacWorks, the Lisa 2 and Macintosh XL can run a good deal of Macintosh software, including System 6.0.3.
Details
announced 1984.01 at $3,500 to $5,500; discontinued 1985.04
requires Lisa OS or MacWorks Mac emulator
CPU: 5 MHz 68000
ROM: 16 KB
RAM: 512 KB, expandable to 2 MB
12" b&w screen, 720 x 360 rectangular pixels
keyboard attached via coiled telephone-like cable
mouse attached via DB-9 connector
two DB-9 serial ports
parallel printer port (used by internal hard drive on Lisa 2/10)
three expansion slots
floppy: 3.5" 400KB drive
sound: beeps
size (HxWxD): 15.2" x 18.7" x 13.8"
weight: 48 lb.
Gestalt ID: 2
upgrade path: none
afashionzombie
4/7/2009 3:24 PM

computer : Apple
SundaybikesRDR
4/7/2009 3:21 PM

its an apple lisa or lisa 2 or mac xl from 1983 or 84 or 85

i never win anything but i guess ill see what happens
Jay Fine
4/7/2009 3:11 PM

Computer: apple
Model: Lisa/Lisa 2/Mac XL from 1983.

That computer is as old as me!
matt6996@yahoo.com
4/7/2009 3:00 PM

apple and the year was 1983 apple lisa
goride4
4/7/2009 2:57 PM

A good old, SIMPLE APPLE/MAC LISA 2 (circa) 1983/84
NicksNotToShabby
4/7/2009 2:53 PM

Its an Apple! not the Fruit Not the Jeans but a good ol apple computer no doubt about that its the Lisa Modle? but with an added feature... IT says SIMPLE on the screen. Thanks friend-oh.
oskiwosky
4/7/2009 2:51 PM

macintosh lisa 2.
osha
4/7/2009 2:47 PM

Macintosh Apple, Lisa 2
dmthomps
4/7/2009 2:40 PM

brand: apple
model: lisa 2 renamed macintosh XL
AlaskanRider
4/7/2009 2:32 PM

Apple Lisa 2.
The Apple Lisa (priced at $9,995) was introduced in January 1983. The Lisa came with 1MB of RAM and a 5 MB hard disk. The Lisa 1 had a proprietary 5-1/4 inch floppy drive. In January 1984, the Lisa 2 was released with a 3.5 inch drive.

(The Lisa was eventually renamed the "Macintosh XL," in 1985)
In 1979, Apple had seen a need to complete the Apple II series. After a visit to the Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) where he saw lots of new technologies (Ethernet network, GUI, OOP & Laser Printers), Steve Jobs (then chairman of Apple) decided to launch a graphical computer. After lots of work (and two rejected prototypes along the way), the Lisa was revealed in January 1983.

Lisa was the original code-name. Supposedly, the Lisa was named after Steve Jobs' eldest daughter, Lisa Nicole. The Lisa project cost over $50 million and was the result of more than 200 person-years of research and development. It was supposed to be the Next Big Thing. It was not however the first personal computer to use a Graphical User Interface (GUI). Several Xerox systems developped in Palo Alto, utilized the STAR operating system. STAR contained a very innovative icon-based interface as well as a built-in word processor and calculator.

Contrary to the "legend", Lisa was not the ancestor of the Macintosh. Lisa and Macintosh were two distinct projects. The original Lisa couldn't use Macintosh programs and Macintosh couldn't run Lisa software. The LISA OS (Office System) was a true preemptive multitasking operating system.

But, because of its very high price ($9,999.99 USD in 1983!) and because of competition with the Macintosh, the Lisa was one of Apple's biggest flops (alongside the Apple 3 and the Newton!). A new version of the Lisa was presented in January 1984, the Lisa 2. It had virtually same features but used a 3.5" 800 KB floppy drive instead of the old 5.25" "twiggy" floppy drives.
Three versions of the Lisa 2 were successively released:
- Lisa 2 basic version which had rather less memory (512 KB instead of 1 M and storage capability than the first Lisa,
- Lisa 2/5, the nearest to the Lisa 1 at approx. half the original price, was sold with a 5 MB 'Profile' hard disk unit,
- Lisa 2/10, which offered up to 10 MB of storage on an internal hard-disk.
All Lisa's were expandable systems thanks to three slots in the back, mainly used for RAM expansion cards. Up to 7 drives hooked up at once on the same interface.

In 1985, the Lisa lost its name and was renamed "Macintosh XL" (the Lisa 2 could become a Mac XL through the replacement of a ROM chip on the inside of the machine), its ROM and its display was modified to use the Macintosh Operating System and was presented as a development system for the Macintosh (Don't forget - in 1985 there was no hard disk available for the Macintosh). The Macintosh XL was sold until 1986 but became obsolete when the new "True" Macintoshes were launched (Macintosh II and Mac SE in 1987).

After the Mac Plus came out, all owners of Lisa's and previous Macintoshes were offered the option to exchange their old computers for the new Plus (for a fee of course).
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David Curbow adds:
The LISA was originally designed as a command line user interface. After the Star was demo'd at the NCC 81 conference they went back and redesigned it. But, because the display hardware used rectangular pixels (great for text but not for grapics) the screen always looked a bit odd.

NAME LISA / LISA 2 - Mac XL
MANUFACTURER Apple
TYPE Professional Computer
ORIGIN U.S.A.
YEAR January 1983
END OF PRODUCTION August 1986
BUILT IN LANGUAGE Lisa OS
KEYBOARD Full-stroke 77-key with numeric keypad
CPU Motorola MC 68000
SPEED 5 MHz
RAM 1 MB (2MB max. via 3rd party upgrade)
ROM 16 KB
TEXT MODES 40 x 32 bit-mapped
GRAPHIC MODES 720 x 364 dots
COLORS Monochrome (12'' built-in monitor)
SOUND Continuously Variable Slope Demodulator (CVSD)
SIZE / WEIGHT 35 (W) x 47.5 (D) x 38.8 (H) cm / 15.2 Kg
I/O PORTS 2 x RS232, 3 proprietary slots, Parallel (only on original Lisa),
BUILT IN MEDIA Lisa : two 5.25'' floppy drives (871 K
Lisa 2/Max XL : one Sony 3.5'' floppy drive (400 K
OS Lisa Office System or Mac OS (Lisa 2/Mac XL only)
POWER SUPPLY Built-in 150W power supply unit
PERIPHERALS 5 MB or 10 MB external hard disk
PRICE Lisa: $9,995 (USA, 1983)
RideBMX7587
4/7/2009 2:32 PM

its and old school mac. who really knows the model..all i know is simple is ficken awesome
bikerbrad321
4/7/2009 2:20 PM

i dont kno why i even try these things cuz i never win but its a 1983 apple maclntosh lisa i think. lol
solidstyle
4/7/2009 2:14 PM

Apple Model: Lisa/Lisa 2/Mac XL
danmpls
4/7/2009 2:09 PM

That is an apple Lisa. Local Integrated Software Architecture, also Steve Jobs' daughters name.
Michaelh
4/7/2009 2:07 PM

Indelukket 27
2900 Hellerup
Denmark
+45 6133 4130
info (at) simplebmx.com
pezcore1994
4/7/2009 2:05 PM

its a dave young signature macintosh
samjames
4/7/2009 1:59 PM

looks just like a apple lisa 2

..SIMPLE..
lumpy-custerd
4/7/2009 1:56 PM

that computer on the simple site is a 1984 Apple TRS-80 Model 2000, apples are pretty nuts
Samson Starkey
4/7/2009 1:51 PM

BigMac!
shadow1593
4/7/2009 1:51 PM

its an old apple, simple bikes edition to be exzact made to know anything and everything about bmx
sotelo_59
4/7/2009 1:45 PM

it is macnitosh lisa
i hope i win
micahd
4/7/2009 1:44 PM

its an apple Macintosh
1983 Lisa model
go simple
Rand0m
4/7/2009 1:41 PM

Apple
/
Macintosh

=)
badfish
4/7/2009 1:38 PM

it's an old school macintosh like the ones from elemntary school with the green screen and brighter green letters, you member?
micael girard
4/7/2009 1:37 PM

its a 1983 apple lisa
tibug
4/7/2009 1:30 PM

Nope my bad that's a 1997...and it's got a trunk fulla amps and a few thousand watts in the backseat.
tibug
4/7/2009 1:27 PM

Pretty sure that's a Honda Civic 1998 with 17" ENKEI rims, tints, and a bumpin sound system.
I BE RIDIN HOES
4/7/2009 1:26 PM

yo apple lisa 2

hook it up with that prize pack
Josh Shelander
4/7/2009 1:25 PM

its an old school apple