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, ...

While retro has always been a thing, nostalgia can only take you so far down memory lane before you have to backtrack to present day reality. Not unless you're able to take something old and something ...

Most business software sold these days either comes on a disc or is available on the Internet as an ISO image that you can burn to a CD or DVD. Nevertheless, many older applications or drivers may ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1976, computer pioneers Steve ...

A Macintosh System Tools floppy disk signed by late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is up for auction, with the piece of tech memorabilia estimated to sell for at least $7,500 when the gavel drops in ...

Thirty years ago, it would have been obscene to think a PC could fit into a case the size of the Apple II’s floppy drive. Now Charles Mangin’s Mac Mini lives in one. I was just reading about the ...

I own a pretty ancient Apple Mac 512e (with 68k cpu) which dates from 1985 or thereabouts, maybe older. It still works, but a lot of our games discs got corrupted, so I started downloading some off ...

Data storage mechanisms have come a long way since IBM proudly introduced the first "memory disk" in 1971. By the end of the '70s, a number of manufacturers were churning out 5.25-in. floppy disks.

I have made no attempts to hide the fact that I'm not a huge fan of the aesthetics of the Mac mini. The look isn't terrible; it just isn't for me. One hardware hacker from the Retro Mac Cast forums ...