>prior to the 5 1/4" disk drive (a true "floppy" disk) The 3.5" disks were "floppy" too: you just had to take the actual disc out out of its rigid protective s

>prior to the 5 1/4" disk drive (a true "floppy" disk) The 3.5" disks were "floppy" too: you just had to take the actual disc out out of its rigid protective shell. >Supposedly they only stored 1.2MB but I recall seeing 2.X MB models for sale at boeing surplus in the mid 1990s I can't find anything about this on this Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_floppy_disk_formats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_floppy_disk_formats There are some old drives that store 2 Mb per disk, but that's megabits, not megabytes. It seems the very largest 8" disks ever achieved was 1.2MB, exactly the same as the 5.25".