On July 4, as I arrived at my parents’ house for a week away from the Orbiting Ars Headquarters, I inherited a family heirloom of sorts: my father asked me if I’d want to take custody of an Apple II ...

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 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 ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. 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.

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 ...

A collection of documents detailing Apple's work on its first disk-based operating system recently surfaced at the DigiBarn computer museum, and CNET got a first-hand look at the compilation. The ...

Yo dawg, we heard you liked macs. [Charles] got sick of his Mac mini looking nice and pretty and decided to cram it into an old beige box. This old beige box just happened to be an old Apple II disk ...

[Osgeld] is showing off what he calls a sanity check. It’s the first non-breadboard version of his Pocket Serial Host. He’s been working on the project as a way to simplify getting programs onto the ...