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re: US Air Force finally retires 8-inch floppies from missile launch control system
Posted on 10/18/19 at 2:41 pm to Street Hawk
Posted on 10/18/19 at 2:41 pm to Street Hawk
Mine’s pretty floppy; is pretty much retired, but it’s nowhere near 8 inches.
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Posted on 10/18/19 at 4:05 pm to Street Hawk
worked on many of 'em when I started with Sperry...
Posted on 10/18/19 at 4:10 pm to OysterPoBoy
I signed in just to upvote you.
Posted on 10/18/19 at 4:20 pm to Street Hawk
I think I still have an old TRS-80 model 2 computer with an 8 inch drive in my mom's attic from when I worked at Radio Shack 30+ years ago. 32k of RAM, baby.
They were throwing it out. No idea what made me bring it home. I swear that thing weighs 100 pounds. They sold for like 3 grand in the very early 80s (12 grand in today's money).
They were throwing it out. No idea what made me bring it home. I swear that thing weighs 100 pounds. They sold for like 3 grand in the very early 80s (12 grand in today's money).
This post was edited on 10/18/19 at 4:22 pm
Posted on 10/18/19 at 5:12 pm to Champagne
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I'll be on the lookout to buy some at my local Military Surplus Store.
I'm afraid it's too late.
Posted on 10/22/19 at 2:32 pm to Fun Bunch
quote:The computers were purchased in the 1970s.quote:You should apologize because that is exactly why they kept them. He was 100% right.
Yeah, that's it.
That's the reason.
Took 30 years, but now they are hard to hack.
Damn, you're a fricking moron.
At what point did they decide to keep them because they were hard to hack?
1980?
1985?
1990?
1995?
2000?
2005?
No, they did not keep them because they are hard to hack. They kept them because, for decades, it was cheaper to keep them rather than replace them. The system remains in use because, in short, it still works. The floppy drives were scheduled to be replaced with Secure Digital devices by the end of 2017. Modernization across the entire Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications (NC3) enterprise remains ongoing.
Although one benefit of maintaining an archaic, legacy system is that it is far more difficult to hack, that is not THE reason they are archaic.
Institutional inertia is the reason they are archaic.
Posted on 10/22/19 at 2:34 pm to Space Cadet
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The new system will require two officers to launch simultaneously. And should the missile fail, simply take out the codes and blow on them.
Launch code:
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, A, B, LAUNCH!
Posted on 10/22/19 at 2:36 pm to Street Hawk
Skynet can't run on 8" floppies.
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