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Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks (japantoday.com)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Where are floppies used in the US government? Old mainframes are all over the place but where are floppies?

Japan just got an acute case of what a lot of western governments have - IT early adopter disease. These old systems were built using (at the time) revolutionary technology that was designed without much thought given to modularity or sun-setting.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Iirc literally the nuclear launch systems? I'll see if I can find the article.

Edit: not anymore, but as recent as about 2019ish. Can't imagine they're the only ancient infrastructure still using this level of technology though. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/nuclear-weapons-floppy-disks.html

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I'm not sure about government but I am aware of test equipment in commercial aerospace that still use floppy disks, soooo.....