June 1, 1978: Apple launches the Disk II floppy drive, one of the company’s most important peripherals ever.
The best floppy drive available at the time, Disk II solves the Apple II computer’s most glaring weakness — a lack of storage. It also helps establish Apple’s flair for handsome profit margins.
Apple Disk II launch
The Apple II had been available for around six months when the need for a better storage option became obvious. In today’s world of cloud storage and 1-terabyte iPhones, it’s strange to consider a time when storage space was at a severe shortage on Apple machines. That certainly proved the case in 1977, however. At that time, the only way for users to store and access programs and data was using unfathomably slow cassette tapes.
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