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.

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The original floppy disk held 100KB of data. The standard disk held 1.44 megabytes of data - equivalent to a three-minute song. In South Africa, floppy disks are commonly known as stiffies.

The original 8in (20cm) and 5.25in (13cm) floppy disks were actually floppy – you could bend them slightly without harming the magnetic material inside. But the later 3.5in (8.75cm) disks were ...

Original Doom 2 Floppy Disks Up For Auction, Current High Bid Is $2,550. John Romero invites you to own a piece of gaming history. By Eddie Makuch on June 27, 2017 at 10:55PM PDT.

For people under a certain age, the 8 inch floppy disk is a historical curiosity. They might just have owned a PC that had a 5.25 inch disk drive, but the image conjured by the phrase “floppy… ...

The iMac was the first mass-produced computer to ditch the 3.5-inch floppy disk, and the rest of the industry followed soon after — but that doesn't mean there isn't a market for them.

The "floppy" emerged in around 1970 – so named because you could bend the original disks without breaking them. For about three decades, they were the main way people stored and backed up ...

Many more original 8-inch floppy disks are in his to-archive queue, including what he believes could be a complete set of MicroPro products such as WordStar and SpellStar—some of the earliest ...