Floppy disks are no longer good for government work in Japan, among the last places where the ancient storage devices remain in wide use. But these rules have now finally been scrapped ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off. Although from a ...

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Various other organizations have also been slow to ditch the dated storage format, including in Japan, which only stopped using floppy disks in governmental systems in June, and the German navy, which ...

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It's taken until 2024, but Japan has finally said goodbye to floppy disks. Up until last month, people were still asked to submit documents to the government using the outdated storage devices ...