<story><title>Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on public housing applicants</title><url>https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20211227/p2a/00m/0na/072000c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dehrmann</author><text>&amp;gt; The disks &amp;quot;almost never broke and lost data,&amp;quot; Yoichi Ono, who is in charge of managing public funds for Meguro ward, told the Nikkei.&lt;p&gt;This was not my experience.</text></item><item><author>wodenokoto</author><text>BusinessInsider, October 2021, &amp;quot;The Japanese government is still trying to phase out floppy disks a decade after Sony stopped making them&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&amp;#x2F;japan-government-tokyo-floppy-disks-still-trying-to-phase-out-2021-10?op=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&amp;#x2F;japan-government-tokyo-flopp...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ineedasername</author><text>Mine either. Even putting aside media decay there is the mechanical failure (for 3.5&amp;quot;). For mechanical issues I was the go-to resource among friends and family, and when I worked at my Uni&amp;#x27;s help desk. I&amp;#x27;d open them up and put the spring back together, or if need be take apart the drive to remove stuck disk, canabalize a blank disk-- toss out the media, keep the mechanical bits to slot in the old media.&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately stuck disks were often corrupted if mechanical failure occured during r&amp;#x2F;w. Sometimes I was still able to use recovery software to get data off, but plenty of times it was gone.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on public housing applicants</title><url>https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20211227/p2a/00m/0na/072000c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dehrmann</author><text>&amp;gt; The disks &amp;quot;almost never broke and lost data,&amp;quot; Yoichi Ono, who is in charge of managing public funds for Meguro ward, told the Nikkei.&lt;p&gt;This was not my experience.</text></item><item><author>wodenokoto</author><text>BusinessInsider, October 2021, &amp;quot;The Japanese government is still trying to phase out floppy disks a decade after Sony stopped making them&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&amp;#x2F;japan-government-tokyo-floppy-disks-still-trying-to-phase-out-2021-10?op=1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&amp;#x2F;japan-government-tokyo-flopp...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hermitdev</author><text>Nor mine. I distinctly remember back to college circa 2000, copying a project from my computer in the dorms, walking to a project partner&amp;#x27;s dorm room adjacent to mine, and in that 15 second walk, having the data corrupted.&lt;p&gt;Thumb drives weren&amp;#x27;t common or cheap, yet, though I did have a Zip Drive, as did nearly all of the school&amp;#x27;s lab computers. I never had a corruption problem with Zip disks, but man, floppies? Seemed like if I walked near them, they&amp;#x27;d get corrupted.</text></comment>