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Lot #6048
Apple Lisa Pre-Release Beta Manuals, Developer's Documentation, and Software

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From the archives of Roger Wagner and his company at the time, Southwestern Data Systems—a collection of scarce pre-release Apple Lisa manuals and developer's literature, plus some Apple Lisa software. Includes:

- an Apple Computer binder labeled "Workshop User's Guide for the Lisa - Beta Draft," containing the April 1983 beta draft of the Lisa workshop user's guide.

- a generic white binder containing the April 1983 beta draft of the "Operating System Reference Manual for the Lisa."

- a generic black binder carrying a packet of revisions to the Lisa "Workshop User's Guide," form letters from Apple Computer, Inc. to independent software developers, promotional literature about the Lisa Office System, and a pre-release version of the Lisa Hardware Manual dated June 3, 1983

- an Apple software slipcase containing twelve 3.5˝ floppy disks, including: Lisa 7/7 disks for LisaWrite 1, LisaWrite 2, LisaCalc, LisaDraw, LisaGraph, LisaProject, LisaList, and LisaTerminal; three Macintosh XL migration disks; and a "Multi-Port Install Upgrade" utility disk.

- a Macintosh XL software slipcase containing five 3.5˝ floppy disks, including: "MacWorks XL System Disk," "MacWorks XL," "MacWorks XL 3.0," "MacWorks Prerelease 12/10/84," and a "MacWorks System Disk V1.3," overwritten on a LisaProject disk. The Macintosh XL was a modified and rebranded version of the Apple Lisa, introduced in 1985.

Using the Lisa, these materials were used by Wagner as an early developer for the Macintosh, and his company was listed on one of the first posters for the Macintosh that also featured Bill Gates and other Mac developers.

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