![]() So clearly Apple had no plans for a hard disk on the Macintosh, right?ĭoing some more digging, it turns out that this impression is incorrect. And where would you attach a hard drive? The Macintosh had only two RS422 ports and a disk port that Apple said was only for floppy drives. The Macintosh File System (MFS) was non-hierarchical and the Finder did a poor job at managing more than 100 or so files. First we will talk a little about hard drives and Macintosh, then we will take a look at how the MacDrive works, and finally we will open the MacDrive and see what components it's made of.Īs we have mentioned in some earlier Mac 512K Blog articles, it seems upon first glance that Apple had absolutely no plans for a hard disk system on the Macintosh in 19. ![]() Today we are going to explore the Tecmar MacDrive, one of the first two hard disk systems available for Macintosh in 1984, and one of the answers to our "first hard disk" question. It's a trick question because technically there are two answers! Want to ask a Mac guru a tricky question? Ask, "What was the first hard drive for the Macintosh?" You may get a completely wrong answer, like "Macintosh Hard Disk 20," or another hard disk system. ![]()
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