On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Eric Smith wrote:
> "Fred Cisin" <cisin_at_xenosoft.com> wrote:
> > Can we assume that the ones that were "upgraded" were treated to a well
> > supervised destruction? (or are they scattered in back corners of Apple
> > warehouses? :-)
>
> The upgrade consisted of replacing the drive assembly, plastic front
> bezel, boot EPROMs on the CPU board, and disk controller EPROM on the
> I/O board. The upgrade kit was sold to dealers and fairly expensive,
> but they got the entire price refunded when they returned the old
> Twiggy drive assembly to Apple.
That probably explains why the Twiggy's wouldn't boot on my unit then
since I replaced the I/O board from a Lisa 2.
> Apple destroyed the returned Twiggy drive assemblies.
Some escaped...
BTW, I saw one of the external Twiggy's at the CHM the other day. It'd
just been donated and was in the process of being accessioned.
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