The dozen or so computers were "networked" to a shared storage unit (Proteus?) that consisted of two 8" floppy drives. Not that we got our own disks or anything - they were more of a permanently mounted NAS/SAN. We'd probably average a couple of hours class time per year on them, so not very effective.
This was 5 years or so after I'd already used 5.25" floppies on a TRS-80, and about the same time 3.5" ones were used on early Macs and Amigas.
My school computer room had a single old machine which took 8" floppies, entirely unused and gathering dust in a corner, when I started computer studies in the late 80s, and a room full of 5.25"-equipped BBC micros... By the time I left, the BBCs had largely been replaced by semi-IBM-compatible RM Nimbus PCs with 3.25" drives.
At home, on the other hand, I spent a while with an Amstrad PCW - running CP/M from 3" floppies!
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The dozen or so computers were "networked" to a shared storage unit (Proteus?) that consisted of two 8" floppy drives. Not that we got our own disks or anything - they were more of a permanently mounted NAS/SAN. We'd probably average a couple of hours class time per year on them, so not very effective.
This was 5 years or so after I'd already used 5.25" floppies on a TRS-80, and about the same time 3.5" ones were used on early Macs and Amigas.