On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 08:56 AM, Stuart Bell wrote:
Having now re-read the page, the real sequence was:
There's quite a lot of interesting links towards the bottom of this page which are relevant to the intention that the Mac would have a 'Twiggy' drive. In the event, it was so unreliable that Apple engineers went behind Jobs' back to line up a 3.5" alternative for the moment that Jobs realised that the 'Twiggy' was a non-starter:
Twiggy discarded early, as only 5% of production working - this was Apple's 'in-house' drive.
Jobs talks to Alps in Japan about half-height 5.25" mechanism using the Integrated Woz Machine interface. Apple engineers doubt if Alps can produce, and get Sony working on a 3.5" drive with same interface. Even have Sony engineer working secretly at Apple! When Jobs realises that Alps can't get their drive working, Sony drive produced to a roll of drums to avoid the Mac launch being put back even more, and the '1984' ad looking dated the first time it's shown.
StuarT
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