Re: General Thoughts and Questions on Lisa

On 1/1/14 1:17 PM, Tom Frikker wrote:

> 3. I was wondering this today, and this might be totally off track, but I'll put it out there. Would there be any way to design an interface that would allow a Lisa to use a Disk ][ drive and think it
> was a Twiggy? I have no idea if this would work or not, but I just thought I'd mention the idea. Imagine if someone could get this to work though, with a supply of Lisa 1 faceplates it might be
> possible to (almost) recreate Lisa 1s.

Twiggy is almost completely unlike any other 5 1/4 disk drive ever made, from the placement of the heads to the tracks per inch to the electrical interface.

Take a look at http://bitsavers.org/pdf/apple/disk/twiggy for all the gory electrical and mechanical details.

About the only thing that is similar is the shape of the media.

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