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I did some research and realized it was a Twiggy Mac and that finding it was, as I put it at the time, 'like finding an albino Bigfoot.' (Yes, I've kept quiet about it for nearly 6 months. She wanted it to go to a good home when I told her it was likely a semi-rare or rare Mac, so she gave it to me in mid-December. Neither of us knew what it was, but I knew no production Mac had ever been released with a 5.25' floppy drive and that it was probably a prototype of some kind. I'm her computer tech and she called me over one day to go through 'a bunch of old equipment' to identify what to donate and what to throw away, and this old equipment included the Twiggy Mac.

The original owner was a member of Apple's board of directors at one point in time and when he died, his daughter ended up with it. The Twiggy Mac, along with its keyboard and mouse had been in its original padded carry bag at least since the original owner died in the 1990s. OldMacGuy recounted a story that was similar to that of the Twiggy Mac that was widely publicized in 2013: it had been found in storage after its original owner died. This Mac 512K Blog article is the most in-depth technical investigation of a prototype Twiggy Mac that has ever been published online.

Finally I will explain how I dated this Twiggy Mac, and I will conjecture what may be stored on the single Twiggy disk that accompanies it. First I will comment on the case and keyboard, then look inside the Twiggy Mac. Join me in this Mac 512K Blog article as I review this particular model and uncover its history. Yet another prototype Twiggy Macintosh was brought to light this summer as a user posting on the 68KMLA forums as 'OldMacGuy' showed photos of his working machine, which included a single 5.25' Twiggy disk labeled 'MacIntosh Demos ROM 2.45.' What's so notable about this particular Twiggy Mac is that it is older than the pair which were restored about seven years ago by Adam Goolevitch and Gabreal Franklin.

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