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Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks (www.reuters.com)

submitted 4 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] antler@feddit.rocks 58 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They probably communicated news of the phase out though fax

[–] wjs018@lemmy.world 32 points 4 months ago

Everybody's pager went off in celebration!

[–] gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world 55 points 4 months ago (2 children)

lol Japan invents the three major optical disc storage mediums that became ubiquitous and their government says fuck that and just keeps on using floppy disks

[–] fluckx@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

At least the floppy fits in a standard envelope ( as long ad we're talking about the 3.5" )

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago

they invented those too afaik

[–] kevindqc@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

How can they get anything done? 1.44MB is very little nowadays. Imagine having to split up a word document into dozens of floppy disks.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

What would they use Word for? This is about submitting data in their own standard formats in tiny files.

The real crime is that they're not switching to online. Using optical discs is going to be even more ridiculous for those tiny files.

[–] kevindqc@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Ah that makes more sense, the article didn't mention what was stored on them unless I missed it

[–] RippleEffect@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The game is security isn't it? No online means you must have physical access to some systems

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but forcing an entire country to go through physical handling of each and every request is crazy. I really don't understand how they managed for so long.

[–] RippleEffect@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do we know what the scale was? I would assume it's only for the systems that are required to be air gapped.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 4 months ago

No, unfortunately. 🙂 They're not talking about secure paths inside the office, they're taking about having all their processes using the floppy disks. They have a common format which is proprietary and can only be made with a proprietary PC program and can only be submitted on floppy disks.

[–] motor_spirit@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

I've got .rar file parts of FRIENDS episodes strewn across thousands of floppies, it's a way to give your life meaning during the end times