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PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2022 9:53 am 

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Hello all, sorry for the short notice.
I will be making a trip to a quasi local vintage computer museum this weekend to swap my spare DEC PDP-11/34 for a vanload of stuff.
If there's anything anyone needs or wants, let me know and I can keep an eye out for it.


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 10, 2022 2:51 pm 
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Twiggy, aka FileWare. Single disk!
A disk used for roughly one year for Apple’s Lisa.

It’s the only disk that eludes me despite extensive sourcing and non-stop looking.
Some day someone will send me one… right? Lol.

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 28, 2023 6:55 pm 

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lostinlodos wrote:
Twiggy, aka FileWare. Single disk!
A disk used for roughly one year for Apple’s Lisa.

It’s the only disk that eludes me despite extensive sourcing and non-stop looking.
Some day someone will send me one… right? Lol.


These?


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PostPosted: Tue Feb 28, 2023 8:16 pm 
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Yep. Those.
I quite literally have one of every other cased magnetic disk format except this one.
It’s the holy grail for format collecting.

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 28, 2023 9:10 pm 

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lostinlodos wrote:
Yep. Those.
I quite literally have one of every other cased magnetic disk format except this one.
It’s the holy grail for format collecting.


I did reach out to a guy I know who has tons of vintage electronics but unfortunately came up empty. I'll keep an eye out for them that aren't crazy priced.


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 01, 2023 8:38 am 

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I have one, maybe two of these on my shelf in who knows what condition. In the electronics recycling business, stuff just comes to you. I quite literally have working Amigas, TRS-80's and just recently, a working 1702 Commodore monitor in the original box, that just come in off the street.
Twiggy disks are about as common as Ad-Lib Gold sound cards, Burroughs computers or DEC PDP-7's (not to get too far into the weeds) coming in off the street.
I've been hanging onto it under the assumption that if I get my Apple Lisa working (it is rough, came in during a recycling event some years ago) I can utilize the disk in some way, but we all know what they say about assumption and magnetic media....


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