Re: Apple II 5.25" floppy disks ...

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Lorin Evans (lorin.evans@tcs.wap.org) wrote:
: >Did the Apple II (or variations of it) ever end up using something
: >besides
: >the 40 track 5.25" floppy ?  I'm not interested in the 3.5" versions
: >that later
: >showed up.
:  
:  
:    The answer is yes.  The first production units of Lisa computers came with a
: high density 5.25" floppy.  Apple gave up development as the Sony 3.5" proved
: less costly and better.
:  
:                                   Lorin Evans

...Although the Lisa is not an Apple ][ by any stretch of the imagination.
 It is the original 680000 Apple, the forerunner of the Macintosh.  I have
a later version, the Lisa 2/5, which later became the Macintosh XL.  And
just recently, someone gave me a copy of Lisa Cobol, which I figured I'd
install, until I found out that it is on a pair of the 5.25"
Twiggies...which will not fit into the 400k 3.5" drive on my Lisa.

Those are really strange looking disks, BTW.  The read-write heads are
offset instead of stacked on top of one another, so there are four
read-write windows on the disk.

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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