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

submitted 1 year ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

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[–] vaccinationviablowdart@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

so what's wrong with floppy disks?

[–] jmcunx@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Nothing except for the limited size. I believe even today, nothing exists today for temp storage that have the convenience of diskettes.

USB Flash Drives comes close, but cheaper versions can in rare cases have firmware "virises". On a diskette, just do a format and all issues gone. Also I never even thought twice about mailing a file on a diskette expecting to never see that diskette again. Flash Drives, I still would like to get it back after mailing it out :)

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isn't that just CD with less storage?

[–] arcosenautic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I've never met someone that didn't hate their rewritable CDs. After a few months of reading/writing they would go bad.

I agree, some floppies are particularly bad as well, but most I've handled worked okay

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