Japan’s government is (finally) done with floppy disks

Photo caption: It’s a challenge just laying your hand on one in 2024. Sony was the last major manufacturer to cease production of 3.5″ floppies, and their production lines stopped running in 2011. Photo source: DepositPhotos. Article by Tom Hawking. Popular Science – July 3, 2024.

Until 2019, the computer system that controlled the USA’s nuclear arsenal famously relied on eight-inch floppy disks, a format you probably have to be in your fifties to have ever laid eyes on. One would be forgiven for thinking that the phasing-out of that system might have been the last we’d hear of the floppy disk—but that’s not so. […]

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