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Jobs wanted the Apple II to have top of the line technology, including a floppy disk instead of a cassette. features. It stored data on a cassette tape, and it produced only black and white text and graphics. Even before Wozniak finished designing the machine, he start- ed thinking of ways to improve it. He wanted his next computer, which he and Jobs named Apple II, to support color, sound, and high-resolution graphics. He also wanted the machine to have slots in the back, which would allow the memory to be expanded. Jobs had ideas, too. He wanted to replace the cassette tape with a floppy disk, a new invention that he had heard about. He was so adamant that Apple II should keep up with new trends that he got a sample floppy disk for Woz to study and re-create. “Steve was always looking for new technologies that had an advantage and were likely to be the trend,” 37 Wozniak explains. But more than that, he envisioned a future in which comput- 46 Steve Jobs