You may have seen a 5.25” floppy in the 1980’s, but what about a 8” floppy? Back in 1984 AutoCAD-86 version 1.40 was released for the NEC platform on 8” floppy disks. Increasingly these days most under the age of 30 have never seen a floppy disk and don’t recognize what the floppy image on the standard software “save” icons really is.

In this image you can see a 5.25” AutoCAD floppy and the 8” AutoCAD-84 version 1.40 floppy disk.

Who remembers using the 8” floppy or even the AutoCAD 86 5.25” floppy back in the day?