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The first floppy disk was 8 inches in diameter.

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The first floppy disk was created by IBM in 1971 and was 8 inches in diameter. It stored about 80 kilobytes of data. It was replaced by smaller versions of 5.25 and 3.5 inches.

Source: IBM

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