I believe the 8" discs is where the term "floppy disc" originated, as they were literally floppy, not like the modern diskette with it's hard case.
I know my office called them 'floppy disks,' and man, they were fragile and awkward to use. But holey-moley did they beat the heck out of retyping engineering proposals over and over again on a Selectric! We kept blocks of text on the floppies, changed a few critical names/phrases, and printed out. Wordstar was the program of choice for our office then, and I loved it.
--stella
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