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Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks
(www.reuters.com)
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And that’s basically it!
We've successfully moved on to CDs!
They skipped tape!?
Tape is actually doing pretty well.
Not the little cassette tapes, but tape storage tends to be used in big companies for backup long-term storage, and it doesn't seem currently like it's going anywhere.
It's insane how much write-only documentation is produced by big companies. Usually there is some kind of regulatory reason - like some documents have to be preserved for 40 years. Luckily it's not mandatory to keep paper archives any more (if you live in a sane jurisdiction of course) .