I did some digging around in my iDisk backups from back in the day and found the two most convincing pieces of evidence that the Shugart Drive was, at the very least, considered in the early stages of Mac development.
I never said that all the early ProtoMacs were based upon the Shugart FDD, ISTR that there were several case designs vying for early prototyping. IIRC, from research done about 9 years ago, the final 128k form factor was a late to the gate entry and that Steve Jobs had wanted to use the "Twiggy Drive" up until the very last second. I'm pretty sure that I included quoted txt from several sources on the design process from the folks who'd done the work, but I'm not certain and I can't check it out.
I'm sure that the Lisa didn't use the Shugart FDD, that's fairly obvious from the pics. I just wanted to KNOW that they used the "Twiggy Drive" from someone who had their hands on an actual Lisa. I'm unfamiliar with the third drive you mentioned, so I'll need to research that one now too! [
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ClearShugartProtoMacHack™
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IIRC, the ShugartProtoMac pic was, ostensibly, from a scan out of Appledesign that I found somewhere in my searches. I did a cut & paste of the front part of the Shugart Mechanism Pic I'd found and aligned it as best I could with the Appledesign scan. I have a lot of shots of two Lisa Style FDD ProtoMac, as shown in the early advert, that I've collected over the years. There is one conspicuous difference, the "Twiggy" ProtoMac Case has the asymmetrical opening of the Lisa, but no holes for the oddly offset eject button, nor does the case in the advert appear to have provision for the button for that matter.
Still curious about all of this, but the ClearShugartProtoMacHack™ has been bubbling up from the back of my mind with regularity ever since I found that very cool pic. I wonder if it was done by FrogDesign?
Thanks for the link to the drive bay pics, G!
I never said that all the early ProtoMacs were based upon the Shugart FDD, ISTR that there were several case designs vying for early prototyping. IIRC, from research done about 9 years ago, the final 128k form factor was a late to the gate entry and that Steve Jobs had wanted to use the "Twiggy Drive" up until the very last second. I'm pretty sure that I included quoted txt from several sources on the design process from the folks who'd done the work, but I'm not certain and I can't check it out.
I'm sure that the Lisa didn't use the Shugart FDD, that's fairly obvious from the pics. I just wanted to KNOW that they used the "Twiggy Drive" from someone who had their hands on an actual Lisa. I'm unfamiliar with the third drive you mentioned, so I'll need to research that one now too! [
] ]'>ClearShugartProtoMacHack™
Reference materials:
IIRC, the ShugartProtoMac pic was, ostensibly, from a scan out of Appledesign that I found somewhere in my searches. I did a cut & paste of the front part of the Shugart Mechanism Pic I'd found and aligned it as best I could with the Appledesign scan. I have a lot of shots of two Lisa Style FDD ProtoMac, as shown in the early advert, that I've collected over the years. There is one conspicuous difference, the "Twiggy" ProtoMac Case has the asymmetrical opening of the Lisa, but no holes for the oddly offset eject button, nor does the case in the advert appear to have provision for the button for that matter.
Still curious about all of this, but the ClearShugartProtoMacHack™ has been bubbling up from the back of my mind with regularity ever since I found that very cool pic. I wonder if it was done by FrogDesign?
Thanks for the link to the drive bay pics, G!