LisaFPGA brings Apple's magnificent misfire back in programmable logic
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Open source recreation costs a fraction of the original and may even work with Twiggy drives
Apple Lisas are rare now. Here's a rather cheaper way to build your own – and in theory, it can even use original floppy drives.
LisaFPGA does what it says on the GitHub repo: "The Apple Lisa computer implemented inside an FPGA!"
It's an open source project that recreates a complete Apple Lisa on an FPGA board. It's not entirely complete yet, but hardware went on sale in May and you might still be able to buy one – or download the bitstream of the model and build your own.
The Apple Lisa was a very strange computer, in part because it was pioneering new design territory. Apple started the project before the famous visits to Xerox PARC to see what became the Alto – also a radical machine, as The Reg...
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