Hackaday

Why Apple Dumped 2,700 Computers In A Landfill In 1989

In 1983, the Lisa was supposed to be a barnburner. Apple’s brand-new computer had a cutting edge GUI, a mouse, and power far beyond the 8-bit machines that came before. It looked like nothing else on ...
Indiatimes

In 1989, Apple buried about 2,700 unsold Lisa computers in a Utah landfill after its $10,000 machine failed; 37 years later, it remains one of the strangest product failures in ...

Before the Macintosh became one of Apple's defining products, the company had another computer that failed in the market. In September 1989, Apple took an unusual step with thousands of unsold Lisa ...
as.com

In 1989, they buried 7,000 computers in a US landfill: 37 years later, they are a global computing giant

In 1989, Apple made a rather unusual decision for a technology company: it buried more than 7,000 intact Apple Lisa computers in a Utah landfill. Rather than sell the machines to a distributor that ...