Yes, this is a Blu-ray/DVD reader and writer disguised as a Disk II drive. But it's no mere 3D-printed enclosure. RetroConnector really, and carefully, gutted an old Disk II and, in place of the ...

For £10 in hardware and an old 3.5″ PC floppy drive from the bits box I was able to recover a ... I still have a load of 5.25″ Apple II disks but it never occurred to me I’d be able to read ...

With the 1998 release of the iMac, Apple did away with the floppy disk drive, leaving only a rewritable CD drive. That lasted about 10 years, and then Apple killed the CD drive, as well. ...

He even cut down a 3.5-inch floppy diskette and glued it into the floppy drive to add some color to the beige box and make it easier to be identified as vintage tech.

This old beige box just happened to be an old Apple II disk drive, so we guess that gives it some more street cred. The original disk drive sold in 1978 for $500. Man times have changed.

Don’t throw away that Apple II or Macintosh floppy drive too quickly, though: As Engadget notes, the change only takes effect next year. Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash Add 9to5Mac to your ...

It was 1998 and Apple had just released the iMac G3. It was a beautiful interesting computer: a sleek, all-in-one case, with something new called USB. One thing it didn't have was a floppy disk.

External storage was originally on cassette tape, but later Apple introduced an external floppy disk drive. Among the Apple II's most important features were its 8 expansion slots on the motherboard.

Mac software used to be distributed on 3.5-inch floppy disks. Now, using the MacDisk utility, you can read them on modern Windows computers.

With the 1998 release of the iMac, Apple did away with the floppy disk drive, leaving only a rewritable CD drive. That lasted about 10 years, and then Apple killed the CD drive, as well. ...