One of the most commonly frustrating things about having an old Apple ... to get new disk images onto 5 1/4″ disks. To solve this problem for himself, [Eric] came up with an Apple disk ...

Dubbed “Elk Cloner” and created by a 15-year old programmer named Rich Skrenta, Elk Cloner was a boot sector virus that targeted the Apple II and spread via floppy disk. Fueled by curiosity as ...