He’s been working on the project as a way to simplify getting programs onto the Apple II he has on his “retro bench”. When plugged in, the computer sees it as a disk drive. The storage is ...

Apple first introduced external storage on cassette tape but later added an external floppy disc drive. The Apple II’s eight expansion slots on the motherboard were one of the most crucial features.

Some disks simply didn’t work, although [Pierre] is chalking that one up to a problem with the USB floppy drive and a Mac running Sierra.

The Commodore Amiga, Apple Macintosh, and IBM PC all shipped with floppy drives. Despite my love of the old and crusty storage media of yesteryear, the floppy disk wasn’t long for this earth.

When thinking about the earliest days of Apple, it’s easy to recall the Apple I, the Apple II line and the Macintosh. However, there’s one more computer that defined Apple’s early years. This computer ...