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Gorgonops, I'm sure you can set me straight on this, as much of what I'm saying about the electrical compatibility of the Twiggy vs. the Sony drive is based on my peripheral knowledge of planned Fileware implementation. The drive was supposed to replace Disk II and Disk III drives. Apple had...

Yes. About the only thing Twiggy had going for it was that it could hold over 800K of data compared to the standard 140K Disk II, or 360K DD. Funny thing is, that 3.5" disk became a huge marketing tool for the Mac ("fits in your shirt pocket") which was rejected by Jobs initially until the 11th...

Trash, that seems a reasonable assumption. Obviously I misunderstood what was meant by "skinned" here. Gorgonops was referring to the metal cover on the drive, not the plastic case itself. That said, I notice that only the inside of the front bezel has been coated with the magnetic paint, and...

Take a look at 6:30 on this video, that sure looks like a functional "skinned" prototype to me. Circa 1983. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTK4-QYnDNw&feature=youtube_gdata_player This brings up an interesting point which I'm sure must have been discussed at some point, but in the Pirates...

Yeah, Trash, there's a lot of assuming going on here, with no understanding of what it takes to prototype something. The reality is there were A few dozen of these Mas in circulation for developers which Jobs was finally convinced were the key to the Macs success. And they didn't just send out a...

I'm impressed by how big the drive is inside the case. Talk about blocking any ability to effectively cool by convection. Without vents on top of that case, I cannot imagine how that thing didn't overheat just by looking at it ... also interesting how similar the analogue board is to the final...

A couple of thoughts. 1) As Apple engineers were actively developing the 400K disk behind Steve Jobs back, the ROM likely supports the Sony driver found in a 400K external drive at this late date in the prototyping. Then again, they may have kept the Sony drive development ROMs under lock and...

Uniserver, I'm sorry you perceived my succinct reply as being rude. However I did misread your post. I did not follow the rationale behind your comments, and assumed you we're saying SuperDrives could not read and write 400k & 800k disks, hence the reason you transferred your images via zip...

My guess is Windows is the culprit here. It is likely stripping the resource fork off, or otherwise altering the disk image file so Disk Copy will not recognize it. When you re-save it in mini vMac, Disk Copy is adding back the attributes Windows likely stripped. This is why I try to keep my...

Your impression is wrong. All Apple SuperDrives are capable of reading, writing and formatting HD, DD and SD disks at 1.44MB, 800K and/or 400K capacities. Only the OS and disk copy software limit compatibility. Disk Copy 4.2, or 6.x are more than capable of formatting and copying any of these...

Just out of curiosity, how did you download the disk image and get it into your 170? It's possible that OS X altered the resource fork during the download, or after you tried to mount it under OS X, so that Disk Copy could not recognize it on the 170. Whereas a freshly created file within OS X...

How else would you make a floppy from a disk image to a disk without Disk Copy? He should be using version 4.2. I presume he is following all the other instructions on Eric Rassmusen's excellent site where he got the disk image. I know for a fact there is nothing wrong with his images. Assuming...

Well, in fact that is kind of how I see it. 1) Computers designed to sit on the floor and plug a monitor into, 2) computers designed to sit on a desk and plug a monitor into, and 3) computers designed to sit on a desk with a built-in monitor. In my experience, I've never really come across any...

OK, just checked the FDHD Manual. It is specific to the Macintosh, indicating the drive can only format Macintosh disks and MS-DOS disks, and requires System 6.0. So, my guess here is the manual was revised to include the Apple II, most likely at the same time the name was changed to...

Interesting definition of a desktop, having at a minimum a single expansion slot. I draw this conclusion based on the Mac LC, a desktop, which only had one LC PDS slot, and was otherwise not expandable. Now my argument here would be, that the one expansion slot on an LC would have been used most...

Confused myself, I meant non-SCSI drive like the serial MacBottom, was probably thinking MFM (correctly or not) having previously written MFS. Not that clarification isn't important, but just so this isn't a totally wasted post, it occurs to me that the serial MacBottom was a 10MB drive, yet...

http://books.google.com/books?id=cDoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT33&lpg=PT33&dq=%22symantec+utilities+for+macintosh%22&source=bl&ots=Y2Su_s9aW0&sig=dB8JW6w_GmuKuf2wJ7PYlEDhPrI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=N-FKT47pGeXhiAL5l8nbDQ&ved=0CEcQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=%22symantec%20utilities%...

Just out of curiosity, I was wondering what folks on the forum consider the successor to the "Outrigger" G3 desktop, or if it marked the end of the line for the traditional desktop family form factor. The iMac sort of has taken the place of the traditional desktop PC box for Apple, even though...

http://web.me.com/mikefort/Mini_vMac_LT/index.html

I have something called Symantec Tools 1.0. Is that the same thing? I see in the disk drive parameter volume folder three MacBottom configurations, 20/32/40. It also defines the Apple HD20 in two configurations, HD20 and SCSI. Interestingly it does not make the distinction with the MacBottom...