> Oh my! I feel sooo old now!
I've handled 5.25" floppies on old computers (running DOS and old, old, ~~Mac~~ Apple operating systems), but 8" floppies specifically are an extra level of ancient and hard-to-find.
I've handled 5.25" floppies on old computers (running DOS and old, old, ~~Mac~~ Apple operating systems), but 8" floppies specifically are an extra level of ancient and hard-to-find.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly-1
The dozen or so computers were "networked" to a shared storage unit (Proteus?) that consisted of two 8" floppy drives. Not that we got our own disks or anything - they were more of a permanently mounted NAS/SAN. We'd probably average a couple of hours class time per year on them, so not very effective.
This was 5 years or so after I'd already used 5.25" floppies on a TRS-80, and about the same time 3.5" ones were used on early Macs and Amigas.
At home, on the other hand, I spent a while with an Amstrad PCW - running CP/M from 3" floppies!