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"Type 1 Diskette" was the IBM product description for its first 8-inch one; "floppy disk" was used for the same technology in some places before the first commercially-available products. Both terms were general, neither was specific to any subset of the sizes they would later come in.

There were probably some times and places where local common usage made a distinction between some of the forms then in use by using the two terms differently, though.



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