Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has abolished any requirement for applicants to use this ancient clicking and buzzing magnetic media when filing official documents. Until last week there were about 1,900 official governmental application procedures that stipulated businesses must submit floppies or CD-ROMs (specifically) containing supplementary data.
Wait… I could use Mac floppies in windows since, 95, I think? Maybe even back in Win3.1 days, IIRC (I seem to recall seeing the “. Resource Fork” folder back then). But my memory is fuzzy.
I think you had to reformat to make them Bootable though?
Not in the 3.1 or 95 days if I recall correctly. That wasn’t fully unlocked until windows 98.
Around 2002-3 Mac dropped support for floppies even on machines with a floppy drive installed.
Which led to some pretty fun times when I needed to transfer files from a non-networked stand alone apple machine that my idiot coworker had upgraded the OS on without checking the specs.
How do you force someone to use them?
FTA:
Oh, just government.
Open and close the metal shutter on the disk in their general direction to assert dominance
You tie them to the desk and withhold food and water until they reformat an entire box of Mac floppies for use in Windows.
Wait… I could use Mac floppies in windows since, 95, I think? Maybe even back in Win3.1 days, IIRC (I seem to recall seeing the “. Resource Fork” folder back then). But my memory is fuzzy.
I think you had to reformat to make them Bootable though?
Not in the 3.1 or 95 days if I recall correctly. That wasn’t fully unlocked until windows 98.
Around 2002-3 Mac dropped support for floppies even on machines with a floppy drive installed.
Which led to some pretty fun times when I needed to transfer files from a non-networked stand alone apple machine that my idiot coworker had upgraded the OS on without checking the specs.