Comment by kristianp
12 days ago
The folklore link they reference: https://www.folklore.org/Five_Different_Macs.html
The 1st edition of macworld, notably the first page is an advert for microsoft's products, multiplan spreadsheet, word, etc. https://archive.org/details/MacWorld_8404_April_1984_premier...
The original floppy used on the mac was a single-sided 400KB disk. I imagine that was another set of trade-offs. https://folklore.org/Disk_Swappers_Elbow.html
> The original floppy used on the mac was a single-sided 400KB disk. I imagine that was another set of trade-offs
Originally they planned on using custom 870K drives, but they were too unreliable so at the last minute they switched to the Sony 400K 3.5" disks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_FileWare
https://folklore.org/Hide_Under_This_Desk.html