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

[steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius)]

"Bryan Villados" <news002@macgeek.org> wrote in message news:<xP%u9.215465$U7.60081811@twister.socal.rr.com>...
> 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

The Sony drive would have had to be 360K wouldn't it?