Amaya Toman In today's installment of our regular series on major tech events, we look back at three different events—IBM's loss announcement, the introduction of the Apple Lisa computer, and the arrival of the BlackBerry 850. These are events that you might not remember every day, but which in a sense, the words affected the course of three major technology companies.
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IBM at a loss (1993)
On January 19, 1993, IBM officially announced that it had lost nearly $1992 billion for the 5 fiscal year. According to experts, the fact that IBM gradually stopped keeping up with the ever-accelerating development in the field of computer technology, especially personal computers, was mainly to blame. Nevertheless, the company recovered from this unpleasant situation over time and adapted its production to its possibilities and to the demands of consumers.
Here Comes Lisa (1983)
On January 19, 1983, Apple introduced its new computer called the Apple Lisa. It was a truly remarkable piece of computing at the time – the Apple Lisa had a graphical user interface, which was not very common at the time, and was controlled by a mouse. The problem, however, was its price - it was roughly 216 crowns, and Apple managed to sell only ten thousand units of this great computer. Although the Lisa was a commercial failure in its day, Apple did a really good job with it, paving the way for the future first Macintosh.
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The First Blackberry (1999)
On January 19, 1999, RIM introduced a remarkable little device called the BlackBerry 850. The first BlackBerry wasn't a mobile phone—it was more of a pager with email, contact storage and management, a calendar, and a planner. The world saw the first BlackBerry device with the function of phone calls only in 2002 with the arrival of the BlackBerry 5810 model.
