Ah, the memories! I did some third-party development for Macintosh in 1985, and we used Apple Lisas as our development workstations. These Lisas usually booted

Ah, the memories! I did some third-party development for Macintosh in 1985, and we used Apple Lisas as our development workstations. These Lisas usually booted into Apple Pascal, which looked very much like the UCSD Pascal development environment that was very popular in the early 1980s. But I don't know if Lisa Pascal shared any common code with UCSD. That development environment also included a pretty good 68000 assembler that we made heavy use of. Even before the Lisa was officially rebranded "Macintosh XL", developers could boot the Mac OS and test their programs on their Lisa. This was great, because the Lisa had 1MB memory while the original Mac had only 128k (and later 512k). The only issue was that the Lisa pixels weren't square, so all Mac graphics looked noticeably squished on the Lisa. We also had an issue with the floppy drives on some of the Lisas: their ejection springs were too strong so dragging a floppy to the trash icon sometimes resulted in the floppy disk flying over the office floor.