[Info-vax] OT: For MAC Lovers Only :-)

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> On 12-10-16 18:54, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:

>> For the first Mac, a custom IC was built, called the IWM or
>> Integrated Woz Machine. 

> BTW, Wozniak was already out of Apple at the time of the Macintosh.

> For the Mac Plus (second generation mac) the disk drive went from 400 to
> 800k capacity on the 3.5 inch diskettes (I beleive this used double
> sided disks). it was able to read, write and format both 400 and 800k

Yes.

> drives and later MS-DOS/FAT disks.

Later is the Superdrive and SWIM.
(I believe it is Super Integrated Woz Machine, though the letters don't
work out.)

> So it would seem to me that at the low level (tracks/sectors), the 3.5"
> diskettes had an industry standard.

-- glen