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.

Their patent for a single-sided disc with a capacity of 80kB had been ... have had their first glimpse of a floppy disk in this period courtesy of an 8-inch drive on a CP/M machine in their ...

It quickly gained popularity due to its smaller size and higher storage capacity compared to its ... missile sites force still used 8-inch floppy disks as part of the system for coordinating ...

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 ...

Going back to floppy disks after all these years is a reminder of just how far storage technology has come in terms of speed, reliability, and of course, capacity. Luckily, there are ways to ...