Re: Vintage Micros to auction super Rare Apple Lisa 1 "Twiggy" (It Works!)

[quadrajet1@aol.com (Quadrajet1)]

>In article <c5d7ef25.0206210552.4363a7fd@posting.google.com>,
>The Apple Man <kauai96765@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>Here's another press release I just got from A.P.P.L.E.  Interesting
>>stuff to say the least.
>[...]
>>The Lisa 1 sold originally for nearly $10,000 when it was released in
>>1982, however, due to the number of problems with the machine, very
>>few were actually ever sold by Apple Computer, Inc..  This particular
>>machine was one that came directly from the Texas Apple Lisa
>>manufacturing plant and is in absolutely perfect condition.
>
>>The Apple Lisa 1 is known as the "Twiggy" due to it's floppy drives
>>which were high capacity during it's heyday. 
>
>I've never heard that name for the Lisa itself, just the drives (which
>were originally going to be used on the Mac as well!)
>
>And if the Twiggy was the second-worst feature, I can't imagine what the
>worst was...

   Many years ago I had a friend in Dalls that had a prototype Mac 128 logic
board with the Twiggy floppy connector on it.  So you know Apple at one time
was working on it...

  Back in the late 80's I was at the computer first saturday sidewalk sale in
Dallas and there was a guy with about 50 boxes of ten Apple branded Twiggy
floppy disks.  Had I known......  I recall he wanted $5 a box for them.

Raymond