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Where are floppies used in the US government? Old mainframes are all over the place but where are floppies?
Japan just got an acute case of what a lot of western governments have - IT early adopter disease. These old systems were built using (at the time) revolutionary technology that was designed without much thought given to modularity or sun-setting.
The funny thing was 1.44mb is probably enough to store a really really long list of names and codenames so…they could have used a normal floppy disk lol.