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Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks (japantoday.com)

submitted 4 months ago by manucode@infosec.pub to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 40 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I drew a floppy disk as part of a workplace online Pictionary game, only to find somebody I work with has never seen one.

We work in IT.

The rest of us tried to explain what they were and he was like "did you use them in a GameCube?" and "was it like a USB stick?"

[–] Laser@feddit.org 36 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I mean it was a bit like a USB stick. Just nobody made the comparison back then because USB didn't exist. But yes it is removable storage that is read/writable.

GameCube though...

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I'm starting to doubt he'd ever seen a GameCube either.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Nintendo was planning on adopting floppies iirc, but they were too easy to copy from.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There was definitely a SNES floppy drive you could buy for piracy purposes. A few kids at school had them.

Not sure if it worked with larger games or Starfox which supposedly had an extra SuperFX chip to do 3D work.

[–] Cypher@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

No supposedly about it, Starfox was the most famous example but having extra hardware in the cartridge to power games was a thing.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Nintendo did use them for the add-on Famicom Disk System but that was all the way back in the 80s.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 4 months ago

Happy cake day!