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 What’s the oldest floppy disk you held in your hands?

• 8 inch
• 5.25 inch
• 3.5 inch
• Floppy disk?

I used 3.5” floppies back in the 90s a lot!

I remember that once I was copying NHL’97 from a friend on 100 FD only to realize it won’t work on my 486 machine (it required Pentium instructions to run).

In the early 90s I used 5.25” but it was not on my computer, it was friend’s.

End of 90s my dad brought me a couple of 8” FD, so I held them in my hands, but never used them with a computer, because there was none to use these around me at that time. 
 Held all of them, but actively used only 3.5'' inch. Before that it was using an actual cassette to load Harrier Attack on a ZX Spectrum... 

 
 5.25”