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How has it taken this long?

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How has it taken this long?

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Japan's government finally says goodbye to floppy disks

The use of the floppy disk, which was still used in some government agencies in Japan, has now been scrapped.

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Presumably there was a crazy second hand market if they went out of production in 2011?
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  Or they just stocked up beforehand knowing it was coming to an end.

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