In 1983, Steve Jobs reportedly ordered Apple’s failed Twiggy Macs destroyed; one surviving prototype sold for $150,075

A rare 1983 Macintosh prototype, which Steve Jobs ordered destroyed, recently sold for $150,075. This early computer featured ...
PCMag

Apple's First Budget Laptop Cost More Than Two MacBook Neos

We take a look back at PC Magazine's 1999 review of the Apple iBook, a fun, colorful, low-cost attempt to appeal to everyday users.

11 Sounds That Defined Back-to-School Season in the ‘90s

Here are 11 sounds every kid heard during back-to-school season in the 1990s. Edward Pola and George Wyle wrote “It’s the ...
bleedingcool

Fabian Nicieza's Gambit Novel Only Exists On A Dead Floppy Disc

Chris Claremont added, "If you really want a cathartic end of something, you have the paper, you have fire, and you burn it." Fabian Nicieza repeated, "I kept the plastic disc. It says Gambit novel on ...
XDA Developers

Someone made a system that loads their Steam games using floppy disks, and it's pretty genius

Simon is a Computer Science BSc graduate who has been writing about technology since 2014, and using Windows machines since 3.1. After working for an indie game studio and acting as the family's go-to ...
Seeking Alpha

Apple: Memory Inflation Drives Rating Downgrade

Apple (AAPL) delivered another record quarter as iPhone and Mac demand exceeded the company’s own expectations. I previously outlined a $312.90 price target in a base case scenario and a $351.95 price ...
history-computer

The Short-Lived Floppy Disk Competitors That Failed to Make a Splash

For over 20 years, the basic 3.5-inch floppy disk was the center of all personal computing. If you needed to save data, this small plastic disk that every computer user was familiar with could be ...
phoronix.com

Linux Floppy Driver For Apple's Super Woz Integrated Machine "SWIM" In Old Macs Improved

This is quite unexpected and was not on my bingo card for this year or even decade... The Linux driver for the floppy disk controller in Apple's legacy Super Woz Integrated Machine (SWIM) saw a large ...
The Escapist

Floppy game development contest challenges creators to build a complete game under 1.44MB

If you are here, there is a fair chance you know what floppy disk is, or was. You may even know how small they were in terms of storage size. If you are here and know none of these tales of yore, then ...
Redmond

Reading a 5.25 Inch Floppy Disk on Modern Hardware

A GreaseWeazle adapter and specialized software make it possible to recover files from decades-old 5.25-inch floppy disks. After recently rediscovering numerous floppy disks in my attic, I decided to ...
Macworld

Apple to end support for encrypted Mac OS Extended drives–here’s what it means

In a newly released support document, Apple announced that support for the encrypted Mac OS Extended (HFS+) format will end with macOS 28, which is expected to be released in 2027. This means that ...
GameSpot

Next-Gen Xbox May Not Have Disc Drive, Disc-To-Digital Feature Coming, Reports Say

Following Sony’s announcement that it will not support PlayStation discs starting in 2028 and conjecture that the PS6 won’t have a disc drive, it’s now been reported that Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox, ...