Government amends 34 ordinances to no longer require diskettes.

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

  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    I remember putting songs on floppy disks and it could hold like 7 or 8 depending on the size of the song. I want to say that I had one of those double floppies or whatever that could store 1.5 megabytes.

    • lechatronEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      Fun fact, all it took to make a floppy disk double sided was a hole punch.

      • ramble81@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        10 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.