Andy Hertzfeld, one of the original creators of the Macintosh, recently posted a short clip recorded in 1983—which was intentionally recorded for a TV commercial for Apple, but was never used.
Andy Hertzfeld, one of the original creators of the Macintosh, recently posted a short clip recorded in 1983—which was intentionally recorded for a TV commercial for Apple, but was never used.
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Just recently, an extremely rare prototype of the 128k Mac with a Twiggy drive has surfaced on eBay
When the first Macintosh model (actually titled the “Macintosh 128K”) hit the market in 1984, it featured a 3.5-inch floppy disk drive built by Sony, the industry standard at the time. Originally, Apple had planned to include its own proprietary Twiggy 5.25-inch drive, but engineers deemed it unreliable, despite its larger storage capabilities (860 KB to Sony’s 400KB floppys).
