The original 8-inch floppy disks had a storage capacity of about 80 kilobytes. However, as the technology progressed, they eventually managed to store up to 1.2 megabytes by the end of their reign.

That delightfully Web 1.0 site is owned by Tom Persky, who fancies himself the ‘last man standing in the floppy disk business’. Who are we to argue? By the way, Tom has owned that address ...

No, really! Floppy drives still live on in many surprising places, and not just the homes of die-hard techies.

Maybe not that of the 8-inch drive ... Some will remember the floppy disc fondly, while for others there will be recollections of slow and unreliable media with inadequate capacity, whose ability ...

An early removable disk drive from Iomega. Introduced in 1983 with 10MB cartridges containing an 8" floppy platter, the Bernoulli provided a reliable, removable and high-capacity (for the time ...

(1) An earlier category of high-capacity floppy-like disk drives. In the early 1990s, the failed Floptical disk was the first. Later, the Zip drive fell into the super floppy category. See Zip ...