Twiggy Mac Boots up - software found!

[Gorgonops]

This guy sounds soooo trollish. Just sayin'.

I wonder if he's related to that guy that used to hang out on various Mac forums a decade ago and weave/bluster these tall tales about how he'd hacked OS X to boot on NuBus Power Macintoshes, accompanied by these bizarre technical explanations about how it ran so much faster on those machines than on new ones because of, I dunno, pipes or something. Anyone else remember him? He was great.

 

[techknight]

I do, vaguely. its a very very VERY faint memory though. But i do remember the rumblings about it.

 

[Anonymous Freak]

Smells *VERY* trollish to me...

Which makes me wonder. A notorious troll (who is 14 years old, the same age someone born in '99, such as "oldmacuser99" would imply,) was just banned from the MacRumors forum - someone famous for claiming to have many PowerPC systems and doing dumb things with them, without ever proving he had them... (Such as installing Snow Leopard on a PowerPC, and putting a current-generation video card into a G5, and over clocking everything beyond the point of reasonability.)

So, if he was just banned from MR for trolling about PPCs, I wonder if coming to VCForum or here to troll about 68k Macs is an obvious next step...

 

[Paralel]

I'm betting it's 100% real. The TFS, TFE, & EXPBY all look like something similar to Unix epoch time. The EXPBY is negative because it is unsigned and overflowed.

Don't worry about the date. It looks like it is running off of an internal boot ROM of some kind. ROM can't self-modify, hence the RO in its acronym.

If I'm decoding the dates right, it should start up if he gives it May 30th, 1983

 

[uniserver]

lol so its totally posable that this kid found a 20 or 50 thousand dollar prototype at a flea market for 20 bucks

hap, you should call em and offer him a nice crisp hundie for it!!

 

[Gorgonops]

Betchya a million Confederate Pesos that the same guy has a Lisa 1 sitting in a plastic tub in his closet. (Pictures of plastic tub available upon request.)

 

[slomacuser]

Interesting video of running twiggy mac: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9AxuiW0qHM

watch in HD

 

[unity]

Given the reliability issues with the Twiggy drive, I wonder if the Mac would have been a failure if they proceeded to use one in it without ever resolving the issues.

 

[TheMacGuy]

Very cool video! I still find it extremely odd to see such a big hole in the front of the Mac. I'm so use to the standard 3.5" drive.

Was anyone ever able to confirm exactly how many Twiggy Macs Apple had made? Maybe there are more out there.

 

[CC_333]

Given the reliability issues with the Twiggy drive, I wonder if the Mac would have been a failure if they proceeded to use one in it without ever resolving the issues.

I doubt it. As with the Lisa, they probably would've updated it to a 3.5" drive anyway.
It's funny to think that the Mac could've ended up with 800k of storage space (yes?) two to three years earlier than it did.

c

 

[onlyonemac]

Anyone seen this site?

http://www.twiggymac.com/