13 Apr
2012
13 Apr
'12
3:49 p.m.
--- On Fri, 4/13/12, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
Well, for one, the software. There isn't any. Nobody knows of any surviving prototype
software of any kind that can be booted on that machine. The Macintosh twiggy disk format
is not documented in any available form. This is a very early prototype. The title of
"beyond rare" is apt - as this is very likely the ONLY one of it's kind that
survives.
This is purely a curiosity, there really isn't anything that can be done with it, save
for writing code from scratch. You won't be able to boot any known version of the
system software without simply replacing the ROMs and rigging it to work with a 3
1/2" drive, in which case you'd might as well just use a common stock 128k Mac.
-Ian
I just
can't see having a system, no matter how rare
that one would
not be able to use.? leaving it to bit rot seems
a
very sad thing to
do....
? Why not just FIX it?? What am I missing here?