Japan will no longer require floppy disks for submitting some official documents
Japan will no longer require floppy disks for submitting some official documents
Japan will no longer force businesses to put data on floppy disks when they submit certain official documents.
Japan has been stuck in the year 2000 for 40 years. Baby steps forward is still progress.
Rather in the early 90s when we are honest.
The saying they are referring to is: In the year 1980, Japan was living in the year 2000. And in the year 2020, Japan was living in the year 2000.
Does anybody really need more than 1.44 MB of storage capacity?
Geez. It would take me about 1.5hrs to download that much. It'll take even longer if Mom picks the phone up.
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
In other news, the last manufacturer of floppy disks has closed it's doors today
Plenty of systems still use them, but the equipment isn't critical. They are usually only found in jets and medical equipment. Lulz. I would suspect that lots of older manufacturing equipment uses floppy disks as well.
The logic goes that it's cheaper to pay top dollar for legacy computer parts as replacing the actual machine costs millions.
Cowards.
Boo. I miss floppies and everyone complains about Japan being "behind the times" on some things but honestly, only in ways that are cool or good for civilians' privacy.
they'll probably require CDs now...
I forget what Youtuber had a good video talking about why floppy disks lived as long as they did in Japan. Wish I knew so I could drop the video here
How big are modern floppy disks generally?
I don't think "modern" floppy disk are a thing so it's 1.44 MB.
Typical bullshit from the Japanese government then damn