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From: gpw@ihlpf.UUCP (Wilkin)
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Subject: Re: Who Misses Older Drives? (Re: w
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Date: Mon, 24-Feb-86 10:52:35 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 24 10:52:35 1986
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> 
> Looking inside the Mac, the hole at the front of the case where you
> stick your disks in the drive has the vestigial markings of a 5 1/4"
> size drive.  Anyone know the story, if there is one?
> Dan LaLiberte
> ihnp4!uiucdcs!liberte

A long time ago, there was a computer called LISA.
Well this LISA had double sided 5.25" disks which stored
around 800K. It was a strange drive much like the single
sided version of the MAC drive, except it hads an eject
button. The button controlled a motorized ejector.

APPLE decided to junk these drives, and thus the LISA II
was born. Guess which computer was designed at the same time?
That's right the MAC! 

The original mac was to have one LISA I style drive. Small design
change along the way.

I'm not griping, those 5.25 disks were very sensitive, wrinkle them
and it's good bye data.
gpw

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George Wilkin                                  AT&T Network Systems   
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