Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernize the bureaucracy. By the middle of last month, the Digital Agency had scrapped all 1,034 regulations governing their use, except for one…
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Installing Photoshop with disks was a chore, or rather a cumbersome task.
or… you end up with more smaller files to keep track of in order to carry the same information that could’ve been in one large file
How does small file sizes in floppy disks make it easier handling for those won’t use floppy disks? Genuinely curious.
I think it’s because it’ll promote smaller sizes in general, which is almost always better to handle. (If it can be done without significantly losing quality.)
Think if Twitter for government documents. If the pure text can’t fit in a floppy, nobody’s got the time to read it.