The Wild Ride of the Apple III Uni/Duo File Controller

Explore the fascinating journey of the earliest known Apple /// Twiggy drive controller in this 23-minute conference talk by Petar Puskarich at KansasFest/A24eVR 2023. Discover the intriguing possibility of connecting a Lisa Twiggy drive to an Apple /// and learn about the existence of external Twiggy drives. Follow the speaker's account of the controller's discovery, experimentation, near-loss, and ultimate recovery, highlighting how this piece of computing history almost vanished twice. Gain insights into the development of early Apple storage technologies and the efforts to preserve rare hardware artifacts.

The wild ride of the Apple /// Uni/Duo File Controller - Petar Puskarich (KansasFest/A24eVR 2023)