Apple gave the computer launched in 1983 the name Lisa, inspired by Steve Jobs’s daughter.
The Apple Lisa was introduced on January 19, 1983, as one of the first commercial personal computers with a graphical user interface and a mouse. Its interface used windows, icons, menus, and a pointer, ideas that later became central to the Macintosh line.
Apple officially treated LISA as an acronym for “Local Integrated Software Architecture,” but the machine’s name was also widely connected with Jobs’s daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs. Jobs was involved with the project early in its development before focusing more closely on the Macintosh.
The Lisa was technologically ambitious but expensive, selling for about $9,995 in the United States. Its high price and limited software library hurt sales. Apple later released the Macintosh, which was less expensive and became the company’s stronger consumer platform.