Tillmann Prüfer is a member of the editor-in-chief of “Zeit-Magazin”.
In Japan, a task force now wants to put an end to the floppy disk, the good old disk. The ancient data carriers are apparently still needed for official processes. Just like the CD and the more exotic minidisk. The digital minister has announced that, writes the NZZ.
I wonder if a digital minister should do that. Isn’t it nice when an old storage medium can still eke out a life in an enchanted computer belonging to a Japanese government agency? I thought that a digital minister in particular should work to protect endangered media. The fact that such a floppy drive still works at all shows that it is an object worthy of protection.
Why does that have to go? Can’t you find anyone who can handle the wobbly little magnetic disks? And aren’t enough terabytes already being pumped through the data lines?
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