Even I don't remember 8" floppies
I do, just, and law of averages says I'm probably younger than you ..
.. granted they were confined to the one machine at school nobody used, so I've never actually used one. Plenty of 5.25" ones, though, for the BBC Model B & Masters.
Ah, those were the days.
Next time I'm in the MK office, I'll check, I think I have some 8" floppys in there (but no drive, sadly)...
Ive got some box sets here, mostly virgins and some System Baks.
Back in the early 80's I was the Computer Support Engineer for a TV Advertising Company called Teledata (Tel: 0 200 0 200), basically a glorified Call Center, for TV Media Response, the thing was a twin mirrored simple Main Frame with around 64 dump Terminals running via 4800 serial, the whole operating system was backed / reload on 10 x 8" floppys. If my memory serves each floppy was around 240K, so the entire OS loaded was a mere 2.4Mb in total,
Dont ask me what the System Ram was because I'll probably piss myself.