“Lisa: Steve Jobs’ sabotage and Apple’s secret burial” covers the well-known ground of how the Lisa came about and why it ultimately failed. It’s the “secret burial” part of the story that is most fascinating.
The documentary specifically leans on a prominent Lisa reseller named Bob Cook. His first-hand experience with the abrupt and unexpected end of the Lisa in 1989 is especially fascinating.
Here’s a tease from The Verge:
In September 1989, according to a news article, Apple buried about 2,700 unsold Lisa computers in Logan. The Lisa was released in 1983, and it was Apple’s first stab at a truly modern, graphically driven computer: It had a mouse, windows, icons, menus, and other things we’ve all come to expect from “user-friendly” desktops. It had those features a full year before the release of the Macintosh. It was also doomed.
