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…
  • downpunxx
    12•3 months ago

    rumor has it some or all of the united states nuclear arsenal is run off of floppy disks

    • circuitfarmerEnglish
      3•3 months ago

      I can’t remember where, but I think I’ve seen that spun as a security benefit (probably facetiously). Simply because few people can access floppies anymore, especially 5 1/4". And there’s probably like 20 people with 8 inch floppy drives.

      Edit: oops… There is literally a comment in this thread saying the very same.

      • Rimu
        4•3 months ago

        Buy a floppy drive off ebay == end up on a watchlist