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 ...

From the floppy disk to the headphone jack, Apple has a history of removing ubiquitous technology from its gadgets before people think they’re ready to give them up.

If you have an old external floppy drive from Apple or other computer companies with a little work you can swap out the internals from an external HDD to produce modern storage with a retro look.

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.

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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 ...

Businesses in Japan must keep their floppy disk drives for one more year, before changes to the law finally kick in … The Register reports.

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.

But gaming on the Apple II quickly caught on and became a huge market. Apple II used two disk image formats for 5.25-inch floppy disks: DOS 3.3 and ProDOS.