{"id":71,"date":"2006-02-27T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=71"},"modified":"2007-10-29T11:35:37","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T16:35:37","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-apple-lisa-5-14-twiggy-floppy-diskette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/71\/retro-scan-of-the-week-apple-lisa-5-14-twiggy-floppy-diskette","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">Retro Scan of the Week:<\/span> Apple Lisa 5 1\/4&#8243; &#8220;Twiggy&#8221; Floppy Diskette"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/twiggy_1_large.jpg\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/twiggy_1_small.jpg\" alt=\"Apple Lisa 5 1\/4\" Twiggy Floppy Diskette\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">A few years ago, a good friend of mine gave me a few of these interesting pieces of history.  To this day, coming across an original <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guidebookgallery.org\/extras\/spotlights\/lisa\/introduction\" target=\"new\">Apple Lisa<\/a> &#8220;in the wild&#8221; would be my version of finding the Holy Grail, and he knew this, so he gave me the closest thing I&#8217;ve ever gotten to an actual Lisa.  Sure, I could always buy a Lisa on eBay for an arm and a leg&#8230;but it just wouldn&#8217;t seem right &#8212; it&#8217;s all about the quest, the mission, the adventure, and the discovery.  Witness, then, a scan of an original 5 1\/4-inch FileWare &#8220;Twiggy&#8221; Floppy Diskette.  The Twiggy format (Supposedly nicknamed that after the model\/actress &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twiggy\" target=\"new\">Twiggy Lawson<\/a>,&#8221; for reasons unknown to me) was engineered by Apple as a proprietary storage format for its Lisa computer (1983).  The original Lisa model came with two Twiggy drives, but after the Twiggy format <a href=\"http:\/\/folklore.org\/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&#038;story=Hide_Under_This_Desk.txt\" target=\"new\">proved unreliable<\/a> with high error rates and slow read speeds, Apple begrudgingly switched to Sony 3.5&#8243; drives on their next Lisa model (their hand was likely forced by the release of the Macintosh with Sony drives).  All we&#8217;re left with now are these neat little curiosities.  At least they make great conversation pieces at nerd parties. Now&#8230;to have a nerd party&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,40,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-computer-design","category-macintosh","category-retro-scan-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}