That's a good question, Apple offered the upgrade from the Lisa 1 to the 2,
so is the drive connector the same?

Sure you have to get MacOS onto a twiggy somehow........


Kind Regards
Des




On 20 November 2010 07:43, Christian Wacker <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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