On Jul 19, 2017 10:15 AM, "Fred Cisin via cctalk" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > That Steve Jobs was pestering them for a cheap drive, but due to the holes in his jeans and personal hygiene?, they never took him seriously.
I think Shugart settled on 5.25" for the size of a minifloppy at least a year, and more likely two years, before Steve Jobs would have visited. I don't have proof, but SA400 public intro was in 1976, and they probably took more than a year of development to get to that point. There's evidence in engineering notes recently published indicating that Woz did some design work using a normal SA400 before Shugart was convinced to sell Apple the SA390, which was the SA400 sans the standard drive electronics PCB.
