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 is until the 1.2Megabyte (MB) size disks appeared in 1984 along ... the US nuclear missile sites force still used 8-inch floppy disks as part of the system for coordinating operational ...