Lee Duna to TechnologyEnglish • 8 months agoThe floppy disk refused to die in Japan - laws that forced the continued use of floppies have finally hit the chopping blockwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square100fedilinkarrow-up1582arrow-down15cross-posted to: technology
arrow-up1577arrow-down1external-linkThe floppy disk refused to die in Japan - laws that forced the continued use of floppies have finally hit the chopping blockwww.tomshardware.comLee Duna to TechnologyEnglish • 8 months agomessage-square100fedilinkcross-posted to: technology
minus-square@TwilightVulpinelinkEnglish2•8 months agoBent and crushed floppies were less of a problem than simple failures of reading and writing them, which in my memory happened much more often than they do to USB drives now. I don’t see people breaking usb sticks in half that often either.
Bent and crushed floppies were less of a problem than simple failures of reading and writing them, which in my memory happened much more often than they do to USB drives now. I don’t see people breaking usb sticks in half that often either.