Remember, just because it's in an advertisement, does' mean it is a working computer. It could have been assembled out of obsolete parts. john
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Des Hay Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 12:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Lisa Twiggy Drives and Macintosh 128k 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. -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] <mailto:vintage-macs%[email protected]> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] <mailto:vintage-macs%[email protected]> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
