December 25, 1977: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak spends the holidays building a prototype of the Disk II, the Apple II computer’s revolutionary floppy disk drive. “I worked all day, all night, ...
While retro has always been a thing, nostalgia can only take you so far down memory lane before you have to backtrack to present day reality. Not unless you're able to take something old and something ...
Apple has effectively killed off two disk drive formats, and may well be on its way to eliminating disk drives altogether. In the early 1980s, the company supported the predominant floppy disk format ...
I haven’t touched a DVD, CD, or even a Blu-Ray disc in years, let alone one of the floppy disks the Apple Disk II was designed to load back in the early ‘80s. But I might find a reason to use outdated ...
I have made no attempts to hide the fact that I'm not a huge fan of the aesthetics of the Mac mini. The look isn't terrible; it just isn't for me. One hardware hacker from the Retro Mac Cast forums ...
Thirty years ago, it would have been obscene to think a PC could fit into a case the size of the Apple II’s floppy drive. Now Charles Mangin’s Mac Mini lives in one. I was just reading about the ...
Yo dawg, we heard you liked macs. [Charles] got sick of his Mac mini looking nice and pretty and decided to cram it into an old beige box. This old beige box just happened to be an old Apple II disk ...