<div dir="ltr">On floppy disks, there was a recent news item in Japan that government bureaucrats have been using 3.5-in floppy disks for transmitting employee payment data to banks. Apparently, the banks wished to phase out of this technology for years, and only this year did the Japanese government agree to *begin* a phase-out plan scheduled for the next five years.<div><br></div><div><a href="https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Tokyo-says-long-goodbye-to-beloved-floppy-disks">https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Tokyo-says-long-goodbye-to-beloved-floppy-disks</a></div><div><br></div><div>Hyungsub Choi<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">-----------------------------------------------------</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Hyungsub Choi, Ph.D.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">(For AY2021-22)</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">Visiting Scholar, Needham Research Institute</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px">8 Sylvester Road, Cambridge CB3 9AF, England</span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">(Permanent)</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Associate Professor, School of Liberal Arts</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">Seoul National University of Science and Technology</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">232 Gongneung-ro, Nowon-gu, Seoul, Korea 01811</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px">+82-2-970-6259</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><a href="mailto:hchoi@seoultech.ac.kr" target="_blank">hchoi@seoultech.ac.kr</a></span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 10:58 AM Schmitt, Martin <<a href="mailto:martin.schmitt@tu-darmstadt.de">martin.schmitt@tu-darmstadt.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>today, I got a request by a German journalist asking about current uses of floppy disks. Are they still is use somewhere? Are there still users, for example power plants, airlines, banks or so who are using floppy disks? If so, why do they do
that? I am sure that you can address this question, that was forwarded to me by Daniela Zetti, way better than I could. My first thought were computer hobbyists who are working with old computers and presenting them at Vintage Computing Festivals – cool stuff,
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