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 ...
The gist of the story is that the floppy disk’s surface could still be scanned with help from the aptly named Applesauce Floppy Drive Controller, which got the following visualization of the ...
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.
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 ...