Re: ANNOUNCE: World's First 3.5-inch Flexible Disk Drive Write-up

["Bryan Villados" <news002@macgeek.org>]

Thanks, guys, for adding your input and corrections. I've made them as an
errata at the bottom of the page.

--- Bryan

"Bryan Villados" <news002@macgeek.org> wrote in message
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> http://www.macgeek.org/museum/sony400kdrive/index.html
>
> Though it's not directly related  to the Apple II's, it's part of Apple
> history...
>
> SONY Micro Floppydisk Drive - Model OA-D30V
>
> The SONY Micro Floppypdisk Drive is very important to the history of Apple
> Computer. SONY Corporation invented the "micro" floppy disk drive,
releasing
> its first commercially available model called the OA-D30V in 1981. The
model
> OA-D30V you see in these photos is therefore considered the world's first
> flexible 400KB micro floppy disk drive to hit the market. In 1984, Apple
> took a more modernized model, the model OA-D34V (and later the OA-D34V-02)
> of the SONY mechanism and implemented it into the Apple Macintosh 128K.
And,
> around the same time, Apple included the same part into the Apple Lisa 2
and
> the Apple Lisa 1 upgrade kit.
>
> Read more about it, with detailed photos, via the link mentioned above.
>
> --- Bryan
>
>