On 04/07/2012 23:50, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 4 Jul 2012 at 22:57, Pete Turnbull wrote:
ACT Apricot precedes even that, though not by
much. The Wikipedia
article says it was launched in September 1983 but I remember them
from much earlier in the year (I worked for an ACT distributor). They
had a built-in 3.5" drive (315K formatted, single-sided 600rpm) and
there was no 5.25" option.
Doesn't the Sony SMC70 have the first 3.5" floppy distinction?
(1982, IIRC). Or perhaps the Preis portable (same year).
Could be, but that also had other drive options. The Apricot PC is
reputedly the first complete machine with only 3.5".
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