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What the heck is this hard drive???
blusnowkitty:
So I have to wonder what possessed Apple to create the Widget when the Profile already got condensed down to internal size...
compu_85:
Not Invented Here syndrome. Same reason they made the Twiggy. The Widget was also expanded to the 20mb Nisha, which was going to be in the Macintosh HD20...
stepleton:
It's a very likely explanation! I wonder if there could be more reasons, too:
1. Maybe Apple didn't like doing business with HD manufacturers of the time or with Seagate in particular. Being able to say "well, we can make our own hard drives" could have been a convenient hedge against those companies: either it strengthened Apple's bargaining position or (if no deal were possible) assured that the hard drives would come from somewhere. It sounds like an elaborate move, but this video alleges that EDS did the same kind of thing when making deals with IBM for PCs.
2. Very similar to NIH syndrome but not quite the same: businesses often ship their org chart in various ways. If Apple had a disk division, perhaps it just assumed by inertia+default that it would put them to work --- after al, you shouldn't just have them sitting around doing nothing! Sometimes you can come up with justifications for this that get pretty complicated: "sure, Widgets are pricey, but we're investing in learning how to make disks, so it's worth the cost." Just a theory: someone who was at Apple at the time could say whether it holds water.
AlexTheCat123:
After talking to him some more, he agreed to send me the drive in exchange for some other Lisa-related stuff! So I'll take a bunch of pictures of it and archive the ROM and drive contents (if the thing works) whenever I get my hands on it. I'm not sure when exactly I'll get it (it's probably going to be at least a month), but I'll keep you guys posted!
Al Kossow:
--- Quote from: blusnowkitty on April 07, 2023, 01:49:57 pm ---So I have to wonder what possessed Apple to create the Widget when the Profile already got condensed down to internal size...
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Higher performance. Widget and Nisha were both voice coil embedded servo drives.
Nisha was half-height, the mechanisms are similar to what Quantum shipped as the Q540.
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