Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks

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Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks
japantoday.com

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You... can fax from 7-11? I need to know more about this!

Convenience stores in Japan are much more than the cigarettes and lottery tickets of North America. They have lots of ready-to-eat food, snacks, drinks as well as some banking services, bill payments, faxing and more.

Ours have that too, but it's old hot dogs and ATM's with fees up your ass.

Yeah sorry. I should have said "ready-to-eat food that you actually want to eat". As in hot food regularly being cooked and refrigerated food that is brought in fresh multiple times a day.

Each 7-11 in Japan has one of those big business multicopiers. You can copy, print, scan, fax. The printing is sweet because it does photo printing on glossy paper, but also laser printing up to A3 size or even making custom post cards. They also have databases of paid content like sheet music and stuff you can print. I prefer Lawson/FamilyMart though since they also have sticker printing!

You have just convinced me to put "visit a 7-11" on my Japan bucket list*. I need to know what it feels like to print sheet music there.

*I may not ever get to go to Japan, but we can all dream

Trust me, if you go to Japan you will go to a 7-11 whether you want to or not. They are absolutely everywhere, like “ubiquitous” is an understatement. I think when we were there we went to 2-5 convenience stores per day just because they were just so… convenient…

You should try to visit 7-11 in most countries, they are all very different!

Get the 7 Eleven multicopy app. You can do all kinds of things.