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devilish666 ,

It's kinda weird, i thought japan is all about future & high tech but yet they still using floppy disk & fax machine every day

FrostyCaveman ,

As they say, it’s been the year 2000 in Japan for the past 40 years

cm0002 ,

Japan government accepts it’s no longer the ’90s

Ah, so they've also stopped keeping fax around as well right?...RIGHT??

argh_another_username ,

So, let me tell a little story from a couple of months ago. We were migrating a big system and we discovered that it was still sending fax to some destinations. We still have a fax server running. The way it works is that we send an email to <faxnumber>@fax.mycompany.com and it will send the fax to that number.

So, we contacted the destinations and some declared that they didn't even had faxes anymore. BUT, a few others still had them and, what a surprise, it was a fax server that would receive the fax... and transform it in an email!

Of course, we changed those services and retired the fax server.

FrostyCaveman ,

Ahh, that’s so satisfying to read..

kautau ,

I have a story like this too. Every month my power company mails me a physical bill. The only way to pay it without a fee is by mailing a physical check or driving to the office and handing them cash. There is no auto pay. There is no way to check how much you owe online, but you can by phone if you call the office and Darlene is working because she’s the only one that “knows the system.” You can pay online, but you pay 15 dollars to do so. That’s the end of my story, there’s no happy ending.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer ,

Still pixelating porn though? Stay classy.

shortwavesurfer ,

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.

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

wreckedcarzz ,
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punches a hole straight through the recording media

you lied to me

ramble81 ,

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.

FrostyCaveman ,

What kind of songs? MIDIs or something?

shortwavesurfer ,

Mp3s back when they were like 300kb. This would have been 2003 or so.

autotldr Bot ,

This is the best summary I could come up with:

It recently announced amendments to laws requiring the use of the physical media formats for submissions to the government for things like alcohol business, mining, and aircraft regulation.

Kono announced intentions to amend regulations to support online submissions and cloud data storage, changing requirements that go back several decades, as noted recently by Japanese news site SoraNews24.

As per a Google translation of a January 23 article from the Japanese tech website PC Watch, the ministry has deleted requirements of floppy disks and CD-ROMs for various ordinances, including some pertaining to quarrying, energy, and weapons manufacturing regulations.

METI's announcement, as per a Google translation, highlighted the Japanese government's "many provisions stipulating the use of specific recording media such as floppy disks regarding application and notification methods," as well as "situations that are hindering the online implementation of procedures."

With usage growing and peaking in the '80s and '90s, the floppy disk couldn't compete with the likes of CD-ROMs, USB thumb drives, and other more advanced forms of storage made available by the late '90s.

Its Japanese customers are "mostly hobbyists and private parties that have machines or musical equipment that continue to use floppy disks," Tom Persky, who runs the site, said.

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