I’ve got .rar file parts of FRIENDS episodes strewn across thousands of floppies, it’s a way to give your life meaning during the end times
Comment on Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks
kevindqc@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How can they get anything done? 1.44MB is very little nowadays. Imagine having to split up a word document into dozens of floppy disks.
motor_spirit@lemmy.world 2 months ago
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 months ago
What would they use Word for? This is about submitting data made with standard programs in tiny files.
The real crime is that they’re not switching to online. Using optical discs is going to be even more ridiculous for those tiny files.
kevindqc@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ah that makes more sense, the article didn’t mention what was stored on them unless I missed it
RippleEffect@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The game is security isn’t it? No online means you must have physical access to some servers
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Sure, but forcing an entire country to go through physical handling of each and every request is crazy. I really don’t understand how they managed for so long.
RippleEffect@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Do we know what the scale was? I would assume it’s only for the systems that are required to be air gapped.