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

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (7 children)

If it works well for the job that it's tasked to perform, why change it? It's got the added benefit of being an unintentional security feature now too, as very few others will even have a drive for reading them. Sort of like how manual transmissions are much less likely to be stolen now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

The most practical reasons are that both the drives and media are getting harder to find.

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