Twiggy Mac reference on M0110 keyboard?

[68kPlus]

Found this odd reference to the twiggy Mac (128k prototype) on the back of my M0110 keyboard.

Does anyone know any more about this?

Perhaps the M0110's model was finalized before the twiggy Mac was axed.

 

[68kPlus]

Also the separate looking bottom part is also rather strange.
Perhaps a reference to a SCSI drive?

 

[bibilit]

Also the separate looking bottom part is also rather strange.

Not really, just the bottom part of the case with the location for the keyboard cable.

 

[joshc]

It's just how it's drawn I think - that's not a Twiggy Mac, just a 128K showing the floppy opening/bezel clearly - the symbol is small so they probably thought it best to make the floppy bezel appear larger so it's easier to see on the symbol.

 

[68kPlus]

It's just how it's drawn I think - that's not a Twiggy Mac, just a 128K showing the floppy opening/bezel clearly - the symbol is small so they probably thought it best to make the floppy bezel appear larger so it's easier to see on the symbol.

That's a good point - one thing worth mentioning however, is that upon looking at my Mac Plus (and M0001s online), the floppy drive on them is a lot less wide than the Mac shown on the keyboard, which would mean that they went out of their way to enlarge the floppy drive on a part of the Mac that isn't related to the actual peripheral it's engraved on, which doesn't make much sense to me.
Not trying to argue or anything, but it just doesn't really add up.

 

[joshc]

They probably enlargened it just to make it easier to see/distinguish as the symbol is small? It's just a design good practice thing I think?

 

[68kPlus]

They probably enlargened it just to make it easier to see/distinguish as the symbol is small? It's just a design good practice thing I think?

Yeah that's probably the case with it. Would have been cool if it was actually a twiggy Mac though.

 

[cheesestraws]

The point of diagrams, especially icon-sized ones, is not to be scale drawings. The point of them is to help people orient themselves. Bits that are important are drawn bigger, bits that are unimportant are effaced.

The floppy drive and the screen here are the two things that give the "mac-ness" of the mac, and make it unambiguous that that's what you're looking at. So the size of the outline of both are exaggerated. And they are both there to point out the position of the keyboard plug.

It may have been drawn at the time the twiggy mac was the current plan, but you can't really tell just from the diagram, and to call it a 'reference' is stretching the definition of the word nearly to breaking point.

(The bottom certainly isn't about an external drive, by the way: not only is the keyboard being plugged into it in the diagram, but the plan at this point was the "macintosh office", with a central file server, IIRC...)

 

[68kPlus]

The point of diagrams, especially icon-sized ones, is not to be scale drawings. The point of them is to help people orient themselves. Bits that are important are drawn bigger, bits that are unimportant are effaced.

The floppy drive and the screen here are the two things that give the "mac-ness" of the mac, and make it unambiguous that that's what you're looking at. So the size of the outline of both are exaggerated. And they are both there to point out the position of the keyboard plug.

It may have been drawn at the time the twiggy mac was the current plan, but you can't really tell just from the diagram, and to call it a 'reference' is stretching the definition of the word nearly to breaking point.

(The bottom certainly isn't about an external drive, by the way: not only is the keyboard being plugged into it in the diagram, but the plan at this point was the "macintosh office", with a central file server, IIRC...)

That's a good point, and I can understand what you mean. I called it a reference because I didn't want to be like "Oh hey guys look I have a prototype 128k keyboard with a twiggy Mac on it!".

You're right about the bottom part. I was just suggesting it as it doesn't match the style of the Macintosh at all in that it has curves which don't match the bottom part of the actual Macintosh (or any compact Mac for that matter). But considering that most of the diagram literally isn't drawn to scale at all, you can understand it not being accurate.

 

[slomacuser]

There is none on Twiggy prototype keyboard ... but yea like @cheesestraws said