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The floppy disk refused to die in Japan - laws that forced the continued use of floppies have finally hit the chopping block (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 9 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Mango@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago (3 children)

How do you force someone to use them?

[–] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 63 points 9 months ago (1 children)

FTA:

Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has abolished any requirement for applicants to use this ancient clicking and buzzing magnetic media when filing official documents. Until last week there were about 1,900 official governmental application procedures that stipulated businesses must submit floppies or CD-ROMs (specifically) containing supplementary data.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 28 points 9 months ago

Oh, just government.

[–] getoffthedrugsdude@lemmy.ml 26 points 9 months ago

Open and close the metal shutter on the disk in their general direction to assert dominance

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You tie them to the desk and withhold food and water until they reformat an entire box of Mac floppies for use in Windows.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Fuckin' dumbfuck 3rd grade teacher having us all do class assignments in a lab full of Macs, saving our work on Mac formatted disks, and then expecting us to also work on it at home on our parent's Compaqs/IBMs.

Sorry, just had a core memory unlocked.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Here are your twin blades. You know what to do.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wait.. I could use Mac floppies in windows since, 95, I think? Maybe even back in Win3.1 days, IIRC (I seem to recall seeing the ". Resource Fork" folder back then). But my memory is fuzzy.

I think you had to reformat to make them Bootable though?

[–] The_v@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Not in the 3.1 or 95 days if I recall correctly. That wasn't fully unlocked until windows 98.

Around 2002-3 Mac dropped support for floppies even on machines with a floppy drive installed.

Which led to some pretty fun times when I needed to transfer files from a non-networked stand alone apple machine that my idiot coworker had upgraded the OS on without checking the specs.