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Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks (www.reuters.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

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) .