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Japan's government finally moves on from floppy disks (www.xda-developers.com)

submitted 4 months ago by 0x0@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] SuperFola@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It sure took them a while!

I’m curious how they had to send the floppy disk. Like, go to a special place to use an old computer that could still write to floppy disks? Or create your word document/pdf, compress it as much as possible and somehow find a place to put that on a floppy?

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

It would sure make for no-BS documents.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

I vaguely recall reading something about some of their departments were not even using the floppy. Like you had to submit with a floppy, but it was never actually written or read from, and you supplied the documents another way. (I could have entirely made this up, don't quote me)