A closer look
Apple literally buried 2,700 of their unsold Lisa computers in a Utah landfill in 1989 to claim a massive tax write-off. The machine cost a staggering ten thousand dollars at launch in 1983, which translates to a completely unreasonable sum of money today, ensuring absolutely nobody wanted to buy the stupid thing. Instead of lowering the price or donating them to schools, the masterminds in Cupertino decided to toss them into a literal garbage ditch in Logan. It is incredibly comforting to know that the tech giant's rich history of generating premium, overpriced electronic waste started decades before the modern dongle era and continues to rot beneath the desert dirt
