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

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Dosius wrote:

>"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?

Yes, and it was first shipped commercially in the US in the HP 150
personal computer.  Later models had double-sided 720KB drives.

-michael

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