Uncle!!! 
) The release of the Lisa would likely be the reason the Twiggy Drives were determined to be a failure and the reason for the development of the 3.5" Sony Micro Floppy equipped Lisa. I just wanted to verify that the first Lisas actually shipped with the Twiggy Drive. It made little sense to me that Apple would have used it for the Lisa and rejected it for the Mac. Production problems with the Twiggy would explain away that overly skeptical concern.
The concept design sketch above could well have been developed after the TwiggyProtoMac case design prototypes were already complete. ISTR that the Shugart Drives were considered as an alternative to the Twiggy Drive before the 3.5" Drives were developed, which I found in a quote from a member of the Mac design team. It doesn't surprise me at all that they would have had a backup plan in place, if only on paper, after the Twiggy Drive's failure. I never found a reference to Burrell Smith's having designed the "Sony Micro Floppy Drive," that's a very interesting tidbit!
H3NRY, did the prototype you handled have the same eject button arrangement as the Lisa?
The TwiggyProtoMac is the other candidate for a Clear ProtoMac Hack I have in mind, but I want to play around with vacuum forming plexi before tackling that one! Doing a forming buck for something that complex will be more than a trivial bit of work.
OK, here's the last bit of OT ProtoMac idiocy for this thread, I'm very interested in your experience with these cases, H3NRY!
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) The release of the Lisa would likely be the reason the Twiggy Drives were determined to be a failure and the reason for the development of the 3.5" Sony Micro Floppy equipped Lisa. I just wanted to verify that the first Lisas actually shipped with the Twiggy Drive. It made little sense to me that Apple would have used it for the Lisa and rejected it for the Mac. Production problems with the Twiggy would explain away that overly skeptical concern.The concept design sketch above could well have been developed after the TwiggyProtoMac case design prototypes were already complete. ISTR that the Shugart Drives were considered as an alternative to the Twiggy Drive before the 3.5" Drives were developed, which I found in a quote from a member of the Mac design team. It doesn't surprise me at all that they would have had a backup plan in place, if only on paper, after the Twiggy Drive's failure. I never found a reference to Burrell Smith's having designed the "Sony Micro Floppy Drive," that's a very interesting tidbit!
H3NRY, did the prototype you handled have the same eject button arrangement as the Lisa?
The TwiggyProtoMac is the other candidate for a Clear ProtoMac Hack I have in mind, but I want to play around with vacuum forming plexi before tackling that one! Doing a forming buck for something that complex will be more than a trivial bit of work.
OK, here's the last bit of OT ProtoMac idiocy for this thread, I'm very interested in your experience with these cases, H3NRY!
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