Now that Apple sells over hundreds of millions of iPhones a year, it’s easy to forget that it all began with two college dropouts in a garage with some trademark old Apple computers. Since 1976, Apple ...

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.

Old computers retain so much of their appeal after they've become obsolete., but why? These photos tell the story.

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.

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Using a disk drive today is trivial. But back “in the day,” it was fairly complex both because the drives were simple and the CPUs were not powerful by today’s standards. [Thomas] has been ...

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.

Where are floppy disks today? Planes, trains, and all these other places No, really! Floppy drives still live on in many surprising places, and not just the homes of die-hard techies.

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

And when Apple moved on from a technology, it helped drive the abandonment of one-time mainstays like floppy drives and dial-up modems.