I did my first research comparing grammatical forms with a Lisa hooked up to a database across campus in 1984.
That was replaced by 2 Mac 128s...the VT-100 terminal connecting with the Mainframe got less and less use.
Up in the attic at home there's a Mac 512 upgraded to a Mac Plus with a *20* Meg hard drive. It has no network connection, and the Option keys are dead. I used it till I brought home a Mac 2 in 1993. And a Quadra in 97. I should start a museum :)
I took 2 years off from college and was selling computers in 1982-1984. We sold IBM, Apple, HP. HP was a touchscreen, IBM was plain old green screen IBM 8086 to 8088, but LISA was light years ahead of anything out there, Motorola 68000. I sold only one LISA, to a law firm. The price was near $9,000 if I remember correctly. It was so strange, we sold to businesses only and all of them thought that a real computer had to be that awful green screen...LISA was amazing. It had word processing, spread sheet, a database, laser printing, and a GUI with a mouse. It took MS until 1995 before they had an operating system that was similar. 1984, when Mac came out I assumed Apple was going to own the PC market, and they would have if Jobs had released the operating system to developers as opposed to trying to protect its' secrets.
I remember VT-100! I was forced to use one as recently as 1991.
At the present time, would you believe that my company, a Fortune 200 corporation, makes me use a VT-100 emulation for completing my time card?