The Twiggy Mac is now a collectors' item, like a rare coin. Dan Farber/CNET In August of 1983, Apple set its sights on a new, micro-floppy 3.5-inch disk drive with 400KB capacity from Sony.

Just months before the original Mac debuted 30 years ago, it was deeply troubled by an in-house 5.25″ flimsy floppy-disk drive it relied on called the Twiggy (you know, for it’s flimsiness ...

A rare Mac 128K prototype with Twiggy drive has shown up on eBay, with reports suggesting it may have been put on sale by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.

For a period in the Mac's development, it was assumed that the computer would feature Apple's proprietary Twiggy 5.25-inch floppy disk drive, which also came as standard issue on the original Lisa.

The blessings were very much on Wigginton’s mind the other day as he and a long list of early Apple employees got together to check out the resurrection of a rare machine known as the Twiggy Mac ...