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

    • Midnight Wolf
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      511 months ago

      punches a hole straight through the recording media

      you lied to me

    • @ramble81@lemm.ee
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      211 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.