in one of my first teen jobs as computer operator, I had my first (?) and only (?) encounters with a computer that could read 8" floppy disks. I had used 5¼" ones for a while already, the 3½" ones were yet to appear in my radar for years, but the 8" ones already felt like a relic from a distant past. during those days, the 5¼" ones back home felt smaller than before