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The Apple IIe is an Apple desktop computer released in January 1983. It was the successor to the Apple Plus and the predecessor to to the Apple llc.

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What do I need to run floppy

My apple 2e i just got did not come with anything installed. What cards do i need to run a floppy disk?

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Your going to need the controller card:

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And the floppy drives:

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Also the floppy disks with the system and program

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Let me know if you need a source. I may have the drives and disks but not the controller card.

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What would the price range be for all of that?

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If you are okay with 3.5” floppies and can find the appropriate disks (400/800k for Unidisk and 720k/1.44MB for the MFM SuperDrive. This tends to be the better option since t’s backwards compatible with 400/800k disks, and formatting. However, while you can find the drives the 720/800k floppies tend to be less common. You can read more about the drives you can get here as well. It will generally cost more to do it this way, so keep that in mind if you decide to get this drive setup for the machine.

Part of the reason 3.5” drives (and controllers) from this period are harder to find is this was the era of on-disk copy protection. The 3.5” drives never coped with it well, compared to 5 1/4" and was subsequently discouraged. Some developers ignored the fact 3.5" and on-disk copy protection DO NOT MIX well (usually companies like Autodesk and others, especially gov't contractors) and these can/do cause issues depending on how horribly aggressive the implementation is. If it's a one time check it may be fine, but that's the one and only exception to the rule with 3.5" on-disk. Not saying you can't go 3.5", but keep in mind overly protected on-disk copy protection can cause issues. Yes, it was nothing more than annoying and it does absolutely nothing; 1:1 disk copy programs which "blindly" copy these disks will bypass 90%+ of this nonsense (you need to mirror the "bad sectors" if it's based on a sector check) IF you need to backup these programs, unless you can maintain 2 concurrent working copies. "Nibbler" copiers work best as it does it as it sees the disk.
For more advanced methods, cracks are needed (either OG cracking group work, or modern archival group cracks work). Anything done recent-ish prior to upload is cracked by archival groups.
The reason I mention this is thanks to cracking groups it can **MOSTLY** be written off, but be leery of originals with intact copy protection. With how well the Apple II accommodates this junk (being predominately 5 1/4"), a lot of SW has it :(.

A clone of the 3.5” controller card can be found here. If you want an original Apple 3.5” card, expect to pay a lot more for it.

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