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Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks
(www.reuters.com)
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so what's wrong with floppy disks?
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 :)
Also you can't just write "HACK THE PLANET!" in marker on a tiny USB drive or microSD card...So that's points against, right there.
Isn't that just CD with less storage?
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
No, to write to a CD, you need to use specialized software, not just a simple copy.
Plus what about copying to replaced a files already on the CD ? I believe you need to clear it first then rewrite everything back. CD are about as inconvenient as a media can get.
You need several million of them and the rest of your lifetime to boot up the latest call of duty.