![]() Soon, Commodore, Tandy, and Atari adopted the same format. Steve Wozniak designed the first external Apple II disk drive in 1978 it used a 5.25-inch floppy disk. The eight-inch size didn't stick around for very long. ![]() The round disk inside was in a permanent flexible (floppy) jacket to keep fingers off. Floppy disks originally came in a size of 203.2mm, which is close enough to 8 inches for that to be the moniker used. IBM created the floppy drive as a means of read-only magnetic storage in 1972. ![]() A 5.25-inch floppy drive from an original IBM PC
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