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-
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