Search results

We just had a reunion with the original Macintosh team, which included Woz himself - hosted by the Computer History Museum. Thank you all for your support. This is "Insanely Great"! I am proud to say that I was able to participate in this event. Please follow this link...

Hi Guys, Sorry for my late reply. Since my last posting I have received the following commentary... Regards, Adam Goolevitch >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> From Jerry Manock, Designer of the Original Macintosh Case/Housing...

As of the post of this mesage, both prototype Twiggy Macs are now in fully working order. The 3rd disk contained only Mac data files meant for the Lisa 1 computer - not a Macintosh bootable disk. Original Technically, the oldest "Mac" is on display at the Computer History Museum, in...

Here are a few more images of interest that were not used in the Cult of Mac story. I find it interesting that Apple re-set the system and finder version numbering back to 0 when the switched to the 400k Sony drive. Original Original Original

Thanks guys! The trouble with the Twiggy Mac prototype is that once you eject a disk, it immediately asks you to re-insert it. This means that you cannot copy files, programs, or even the system / finder. The only way to make Twiggy Mac disks is with a Lisa 1 computer. This is how they did it...

Hi guys, Just wanted to let you all know that the story of how we got the prototype Twiggy Macs to boot is now published. Although I don't agree with the title of the story "The world's oldest Macintosh", These two computers are definitely the world's oldest working Macs. Please check out this...

To the best of my knowledge, this UniFile disk drive was recently purchased from former senior Apple engineer Bruce Lee. He decided to sell off several of his prototype units to some private collectors. A few of them did hit eBay as well. Unfortunately, this particular UniFile drive lackeds i's...

Curiously, what revision CPU board ROM's do you have? Are resistors R41 and R47 removed from the I/O board?

Thanks! No, I only have 1 machine - the other is owned by Gabreal Franklin, former president of Encore Systems (Randy Wigginton's company). Encore wrote what became MacWrite. They took it all the way up to MacWrite 4.5. He was kind enough to let me borrow his only 3 disks for archival purposes -...

Here's a "trailer" video for you guys. Again, a lot of work and travel time was involved in order to get the Twiggy Macintosh to boot :) http://adam.trideja.com/PrototypeTwiggyMac/Videos/TwiggyTechv1HDV-iPhone.m4v -Adam

I have observed somewhat of a simplifation in the early released versions of the Mac OS (1984), and in early released versions of MacWrite and MacPaint,. They have some key -command functions which missing - such as (command-c) copy and (command-v) Paste. I am comparing this whith what I have...

To the extent of my knowledge - No, a Twiggy Macintosh disk cannot be directly copied with a Lisa 1. Consider that several copying / security measures were instituted with the Macintosh at this time. One of which was date & time-based. Some were copy-protection related. For example, once you...

The Lisa 1's file format is completely different than that of the early Twiggy Macintosh's file format. This is why we needed to use the "BLU" (Basic Lisa Utility) in order to archive and subsequently duplicate these 2 Macintosh Twiggy disks. The "BLU" (Basic Lisa Utility) has several functions...

The 2 media types are incompatible - Twiggy Macintosh ROM's will nuke any 400k (internal or external) drive that is introduced. We must keep in mind that the Macintosh's software was developed and written on the Lisa. The early Macs were used only for debugging and testing purposes (due to their...

From what I have discovered, the Apple Twiggy 5.25" and the Sony 3.5" drives were completely incompatible. Should you plug in a 3.5" Sony drive into a Twiggy Macintosh, it will surely nuke the drive. The Twiggy 5.25" and Sony 3.5" disk drive formats were both exparimented with and developed on...

It's alive!... I hope the following will set the records straight. Some of you may know me as eBay seller "wozniac". I just want you let you all know that over the past year I have exausted many resourses and went as far as I could go in order to facilitate the resurrection of this Twiggy...

It's alive!... I hope the following will set the records straight. Some may know me as eBay seller "wozniac". I just want you let you all know that over the past year I have exausted many resourses and went as far as I could go in order to facilitate the resurrection of this Twiggy Macintosh...

Hi Guys, I am the seller "wozniac" on eBay. I recently got my account here activated. I just wanted to let you guys know that 1 year later, and after a pleasent visit down to California, the Twiggy Macintosh 128k now boots up! With the help of several persons, we have archived the only 2 known...