December 25, 1977: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak spends the holidays building a prototype of the Disk II, the Apple II computer’s revolutionary floppy disk drive. “I worked all day, all night, ...

I haven’t touched a DVD, CD, or even a Blu-Ray disc in years, let alone one of the floppy disks the Apple Disk II was designed to load back in the early ‘80s. But I might find a reason to use outdated ...

Given that I’m a child of the 1980s, my first exposure to Apple was my school’s Apple IIe’s and IIc’s. Many an hour was spent playing Paws typing and the Picadilly matching game. As such, probably the ...

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