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  • US military will no longer use floppy disks to coordinate nuke launches

    As we alarmingly learned in 2014, the US military has been using 8-inch floppy disks in an antiquated '70s computer to receive nuclear launch orders from the President. Now, the US strategic command has announced that it has replaced the drives with a "highly-secure solid state digital storage solution," Lt. Col. Jason Rossi told c4isrnet.com. The storage is used in an ancient system called the St

    US military will no longer use floppy disks to coordinate nuke launches
    Falky
    Falky 2019/10/20
    軍事・航空・宇宙分野の技術は枯れたハードウェアで構成されている(せざるを得ない)というのは有名な話だけど…さすがに8インチフロッピーはメディアが物理的に限界だろw どうやってディスク保管してたんや
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