A prototype model of the original Macintosh 128K with a 5.25-inch Twiggy drive has surfaced on eBay, with a starting bid price of $ 99,995. Apple planned to use its proprietary Twiggy disk format in the Macintosh, but switched to a 3.5-inch floppy drive for the final production model due to reliability concerns. The model on eBay will power on, according to the seller, but won’t boot without Mac software on a Twiggy disk (which any buyer is unlikely to have).
While nearly $ 100,000 sounds somewhat optimistic on the seller’s part, there’s no doubting the fact that a Twiggy drive-equipped Mac would be an incredibly rare collector’s item, so how would anyone have gotten hold of one? CultofMac is positing that the seller may be none other than…
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