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.

The 8-inch would remain the norm for a few years, with storage capacity growing substantially to around 1.2 megabytes. However, the microcomputer boom was right around the corner. Floppy disks ...

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 ...

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

This phenomenon of order cancellations is occurring simultaneously in 8-inch and 12-inch fabs at nodes including 0.1Xμm, 90/55nm, and 40/28nm. Not even the advanced 7/6nm processes are immune.