Prototype Macintosh w/ Twiggy drive found! (Not mine)

[Anonymous Freak]

See http://www.applefritter.com/content/macintosh-128k-prototype-twiggy-drive

Before now, the only picture of one of these prototypes was in an early Macintosh promo ad - and it was very small and grainy. This is very impressive, I can't wait for the finder/purchaser to post more pictures!

¡Muy impresionante!

 

[MacTech68]

More Pics:

http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?p=209188#post209188

Looks real enough!

EDIT: Already at original link. duh.

EDIT 2: Hires Pics: http://imgur.com/a/0Itdf#0

And it looks like there was planning involved in possibly fitting a shugart as well as the twiggy:

http://i.imgur.com/Im9JD.jpg

note the centred cut-out on the top edge for a shugart hub release lever.

 

[gkarris]

Ha ha, watching Antiques Roadshow right now...


What a find - I'd say worth around $20,000...

 

[Lil Chillbil]

no wonder steve wanted to change the look of it. That one looks as he would put it *^&#

 

[MacTech68]

no wonder steve wanted to change the look of it. That one looks as he would put it *^&#

Actually, IIRC, Steve fought hard to keep the 5 1/4" twiggy drive alive (it was his baby) but succumbed to the Sony 3.5".

 

[David Schmidt]

Actually, IIRC, Steve fought hard to keep the 5 1/4" twiggy drive alive (it was his baby) but succumbed to the Sony 3.5".

See this story in Andy Hertzfeld's folklore.org for more on that.

 

[Lil Chillbil]

I was refering to the main body design which was tweeked after adding the sony 3.5 disk drive

 

[MacTech68]

See this story in Andy Hertzfeld's folklore.org for more on that.

Nice history piece! Thanks for the link!

 

[SonnyDickson]

Looks awesome!