How to get a 5.25" floppy onto a modern Mac Warning: this post contains some serious Apple retro geekery. I've actually had to exercise serious restraint with the details. You may want to skip this one unless Apple II's, Color Classics, SCSI ethernet interfaces, PowerBook 2400's, and other Apple ...
Disks as Dolls
Well, for the time being this is going to me my retro computing blog, because that's been what I've been putting a chunk of my spare time into lately. This all started with my desire to preserve my Apple II 5.25" floppy disks. The short answer there: to my surprise and delight, they're fine. Most ...
Floppy Disk Archeology
I’ve got a box, filled with 5.25″ floppy disks. (If you’re too young to know what those are, ask your dad.) I mean, there are probably 300 in there. Most of them are for the Apple II computer, which is what I primarily used from 1978 through 1990, and which, despite being an Apple, is not in any way ...