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drekmonger t1_iuc61bp wrote

Up until 2019 US military still had 8 inch floppy disks as an integral part of running nuclear silos. The software and hardware is still mostly stuff from out of the 70s.

>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/nuclear-weapons-floppy-disks.html

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Iceykitsune2 t1_iueoa3x wrote

And the only reason they changed was inability to find a supplier.

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