Apple and the

Floppy Drive

Home

Origins of the Floppy Drive

Woz's Floppy Drive Miracle

Lisa, the Apple III, and the Twiggy Fiasco

Mass storage and the Macintosh Project

A Floppy for Macintosh

Manual vs. Auto Eject: The Great Floppy Debate

iMac and the End of an Era

Sources

Sources

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Garr, Doug. Woz: The Prodigal Son of Silicon Valley. New York: Avon Books, 1984.

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Kean, David W. IBM San Jose: A Quarter Century of Innovation. 1977.

Kunkel, Paul. AppleDesign: The Work of the Apple Industrial Design Group. New York: Graphis Inc., 1997.

Malone, Michael S. Infinite Loop: How the world's most insanely great company went insane. New York, Currency Doubleday, 1999.

Moritz, Michael. The Little Kingdom: The Private Story of Apple Computer. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1984.

Pogue, David. and Joseph Schorr. Macworld Mac Secrets, 5th Edition. Foster City, CA: IDG Books Worldwide, Inc., 1999.

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Young, Jeffrey S. Steve Jobs: The Journey Is The Reward. New York: Lynx Books, 1988.

Web Sources

Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
http://www.alps.co.jp/

Apple Computer
http://www.apple.com

Apple History
http://www.apple-history.com

Apple QuickTime Movies
http://www.uriah.com/apple-qt/

Bortman, Henry. "Desktop Invaders." Macworld. June 1998.
http://macworld.zdnet.com/ns-search/pages_collection/june.98/Feature.4324.html

EveryMac.com
http://www.everymac.com

Museum of Dead, Gone, and Obsolete Computers http://www.computingmuseum.com/site/page_museum.htm

Obsolete Computer Museum http://www.ncsc.dni.us/fun/user/tcc/cmuseum/cmuseum.htm

Sony Electronics Inc.
http://www.ita.sel.sony.com/

SuperDisk World
http://www.superdisk.com/

About This Project

This site is a project for History 262S (Spring Quarter 98-99) at Stanford University. Comments or questions should be sent to the author, John Fu, at hapgood@leland.stanford.edu

Special thanks to Henry Lowood of Stanford University Libraries and Prof. Timothy Lenoir.