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manucode@infosec.pub to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months ago

Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks

japantoday.com

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Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks

japantoday.com

manucode@infosec.pub to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months ago
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Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernize the bureaucracy. By the middle of last month, the Digital Agency had scrapped all 1,034 regulations governing their use, except for one…

Crossposted from !worldnews@lemmit.online

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    Maybe now they can switch to the magneto-optical disks like in Mission: Impossible.

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      The funny thing was 1.44mb is probably enough to store a really really long list of names and codenames so…they could have used a normal floppy disk lol.

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        NOCLIST.TXT, 78KB

        “We’ve got it.”

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