September 1, 2010
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What is connection?
Cracked by everyone.
Answer:
One of Apple’s 5.25″ floppies was codenamed “Twiggy” since they were so thin, essentially named after a 1960′s fashion model Twiggy Lawson who was famously thin.
What is connection?
Cracked by everyone.
Answer:
One of Apple’s 5.25″ floppies was codenamed “Twiggy” since they were so thin, essentially named after a 1960′s fashion model Twiggy Lawson who was famously thin.
September 2nd, 2010 at 11:56 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283428582 )
Twiggy>
The failed Apple format and the famously skinny supermodel
September 2nd, 2010 at 1:09 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1283432963 )
those apple discs were called twiggies, after the model twiggy in pic 2
September 2nd, 2010 at 1:20 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1283433658 )
Code name of Apple’s 871 disks was “Twiggy”.
September 2nd, 2010 at 1:55 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1283435702 )
Apple’s Fileware diskettes were also called Twiggy disks.
September 2nd, 2010 at 2:39 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1283438393 )
A 5.25″ disk used by Apple in the original Lisa computer, officially termed ‘FileWare’, but it is much more commonly known as ‘Twiggy’, after the waif-thin model.
September 2nd, 2010 at 4:27 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1283444873 )
Fileware floopy disk drives and diskettes were designed by Apple. They were called Twiggy as they were very thin, much like the woman in the pic – Twiggy Lawson.
September 2nd, 2010 at 6:49 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1283453358 )
Apple’s Twiggy Disks
September 2nd, 2010 at 8:16 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1283458589 )
Twiggy Disks
September 2nd, 2010 at 10:23 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1283466235 )
“Twiggy” is the connect. pic 1 (slim “Twiggy” floppy disk drives of Apple “Lisa”) and pic 2 (1960′s model twiggy )
September 2nd, 2010 at 10:41 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1283467302 )
The connection is “twiggy” :)
top pic — Fileware Diskeete from Apple called “Twiggy” drives
bottom pic – Twiggy “lesley Hornby” english model actress, of 1960′s who was famously thin.
Twiggy, drives like the model, “twiggy” were thin..
September 2nd, 2010 at 11:21 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1283469711 )
Twiggy – Apple FileWare(floppy disk drives and diskettes ) named after a 1960′s fashion model (Twiggy – Twiggy Lawson ) who was famously thin.
September 2nd, 2010 at 11:43 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1283471000 )
(1) Macintosh’s Floppy disk also known as Twiggy Disk Drive
(2) Twiggy Lawson
(1) is supposedly nicknamed after (2) apparently because of its “slim” features
September 3rd, 2010 at 12:03 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283472198 )
The Twiggy disk by Apple, referencing the supermodel of the same name and size.
September 3rd, 2010 at 2:47 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283482065 )
Twiggy.
September 3rd, 2010 at 3:38 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283485081 )
Twiggy Disk drives that debuted on Lisa.
September 3rd, 2010 at 3:46 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283485607 )
FileWare floppy disk drives and diskettes were designed by Apple Computer but were most commonly known by their code name, Twiggy, after a 1960′s fashion model(Twiggy)who was famously thin.
September 3rd, 2010 at 7:38 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283499526 )
Twiggy, the floppy disk and the model
September 3rd, 2010 at 9:55 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283507709 )
The Apple Lisa Floppy Disk Drives had an internal code-name ‘Twiggy’, named in honour of English model Lesley Hornby a.k.a Twiggy.
September 3rd, 2010 at 11:31 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283513486 )
commonly known by their code name, Twiggy, after a 1960′s fashion model (Twiggy) who was famously thin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_FileWare
September 3rd, 2010 at 12:12 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1283515923 )
That’s twiggy.
The disk and the model.
September 3rd, 2010 at 12:50 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1283518208 )
Twiggy
FileWare floppy disk drives and diskettes were designed by Apple Computer as a higher-performance alternative to the Disk II and Disk III floppy systems used on the Apple II and Apple /// personal computers. The drives were also referred to as Apple 871 drives in service documentation,[1] based on their approximate formatted storage capacity in kilobytes, but were most commonly known by their code name, Twiggy, after the 1960′s fashion model Twiggy.
September 4th, 2010 at 4:44 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283575449 )
Apple.
Apple developed a disk format codenamed Twiggy
September 4th, 2010 at 6:40 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283582437 )
The Apple 871(1) drives were most commonly known by their code name, Twiggy, after a 1960′s fashion model, Twiggy(2) who was famously thin.
September 4th, 2010 at 8:12 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283587973 )
Apple FileWare 5.25-inch double-sided floppy disk drives,internal code name as twiggy(image 2)
September 4th, 2010 at 8:51 am, GMT +0000 ( 1283590265 )
Apple FileWare was codenamed Twiggy after the model in 2.
September 4th, 2010 at 9:33 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1283636018 )
connect–’twiggy’
pic 1–apple’s twiggy disk
pic 2–twiggy,the british fashion model