The Lisa project: Apple’s first attempt at a business computerThe Lisa project began as Apple’s attempt to build a better business computer, but it ended up reinventing personal computing instead. The roots of the Lisa project go back slightly further than Jobs’ visit to Xerox PARC, which took place in 1979. A high-profile Apple flopDespite this innovation, Apple’s Lisa project failed. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the computer flopped in the marketplace, despite this wonderful advertisment featuring a pre-fame Kevin Costner as a proud Lisa owner:The Apple Lisa: A computer by any other name…Perhaps unsurprisingly, Apple canceled the Lisa product line in 1986. Do you own an Apple Lisa computer?