How much do 8" Floppies hold?

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Wed Feb 4 14:11:59 1998

On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, PG Manney wrote:

> I keep an 8" floppy disk in the front of my store to amaze people ("Just
> fold it twice and stick it in your drive...it holds a lot!")
>
> Just how much do (did?) they hold? (I'm sure there were different data
> densities...just a range is all I want!)
>
> manney
 
In rather general terms, from 241k for SSSD to 1.2mb for DSDD.

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