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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36385839
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The US nuclear weapons force still uses a 1970s-era computer system and 8-inch floppy disks, a government report has revealed.I guess no-one wants to rewrite in .net and find it doesn't work after a windows update ;)
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Better on physical media than in the cloud
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I wonder if modern malicious coders can write a virus small enough to fit on a 237Kb floppy, or if they even know how to use a floppy... Probably the only thing keeping the world from going bang. Next year should be the end of the world, when they upgrade to USB...
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Pete-MK says...
"Better on physical media than in the cloud"
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I don't think I've ever seen an 8" floppy.
You can take that however you want.
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Its not just the firmware and software to worry about, its also the nutter in charge with the finger on the trigger, who we hope has a cool head.
Anyway we got though decades of the cold war, so why worry now, he he.
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"its also the nutter in charge with the finger on the trigger, who we hope has a cool head.
Anyway we got though decades of the cold war, so why worry now, he he."
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Rob Shepherd says...
"I don't think I've ever seen an 8" floppy."
FFS , 8" , better get the vacuum pump and Dyson attachment out of storage
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Rob Shepherd says...
"I don't think I've ever seen an 8" floppy.
You can take that however you want."
I would think by it's very nature it would be difficult to take in any way.
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