Anyone wanna dismantle a Lisa and see if they can plug their twiggy
into their 128K?

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Des Hay <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Jonathan
>
> If you look closely at the drive slot on the Mac and the Lisa in that photo
> it is identical, i.e. too thin to accept a 3 1/2" disk, the thickness of the
> slot appears to be the same as the twiggy Lisa.
>
> I have nothing to back it up with, just a guess but I would imagine Apple
> switched the Mac project from the twiggy drive to the Sony sometime in mid
> 1983.
>
>
>
> Sure we will all have more questions than answers, but its a fascinating
> subject to talk about.
>
>
> Kind Regards
> Des
>
>
>
> On 20 November 2010 05:42, Jonathan Carpenter <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> The original 128k Mac was designed to originally use Twiggy drives.  They
>> had already done some of the test plastic molds of the cases when they
>> decided to switch to the 3.5" disks.  I don't think there were any Macs
>> actually built with Twiggy drives, but some of the pre-productions Macs do
>> have a larger disk opening where the Twiggy drive was supposed to go, but
>> they were actually using 3.5" disks.
>>
>> I think I read this in one of the very early issues of MacWorld.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 6:56 PM, D. Finnigan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:45:27 +1100, Des Hay <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Not the best picture I know but I wonder if this is an early twiggy
>>> > drive
>>> > Macintosh with Andy Hertzfeld?
>>> >
>>>
>>> Looks like 3.5" to me.
>>>
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