Back in the day, the Apple Lisa was a mythical computer that those of us with paper routes dreamed of. It’s asking price of $9,995 scales up to about $31,000 2025 dollars. While I’m too much of a minimalist to keep old Macs around, I do like tinkering in their operating systems and the recent crop of browser-based simulators scratches exactly that itch. And now there is an excellent one for the Lisa.

When playing with it you’ll notice how, when you move windows, you just see an outline of the window. That, boys and girls, is how these things worked “back in the day” when computers didn’t have much graphics processing power.