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Japan government accepts it’s no longer the ’90s, stops requiring floppy disks (arstechnica.com)

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Japan government accepts it’s no longer the ’90s, stops requiring floppy disks::Government amends 34 ordinances to no longer require diskettes.

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[–] lechatron@lemmy.today 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Fun fact, all it took to make a floppy disk double sided was a hole punch.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

punches a hole straight through the recording media

you lied to me

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

It depended…. The media used to need to support using both sides. I actually ran into some single sided media in the early early days. Or you’d get “binned” equivalents where even though they had the magnetic layer on the opposite side, quite often they’d fail after use.