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United States Nuclear Arsenal Controlled By 1970s Computers With 8-inch Floppy Disks
Common Sense Evaluation ^
Posted on 07/25/2017 6:12:16 AM PDT by gaggs
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posted on
07/25/2017 6:12:16 AM PDT
by
gaggs
To: gaggs
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posted on
07/25/2017 6:14:03 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
To: gaggs
Makes ‘em harder to hack.
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posted on
07/25/2017 6:15:01 AM PDT
by
Bratch
("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
To: gaggs
(Excerpt) Read more at No, you can post your blog junk right here in full.
To: Paladin2
Honestly I’d trust a 1970s programmer using 1960s technology to have a better handle on things and make fewer mistakes than a 2010s programmer using 2010s technology.
To: gaggs
At least it would be harder to hack than today’s machines, as the system is older than most hackers...
To: gaggs
Lets see the Russian hackers hack that !
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posted on
07/25/2017 6:19:36 AM PDT
by
Pikachu_Dad
("the media are selling you a line of soap")
To: Paladin2
We should run it on the cloud. Cloud based nukes.
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posted on
07/25/2017 6:20:33 AM PDT
by
D Rider
To: gaggs
You would think with the deal they could get on 3 1/2 in floppies they’d at least upgrade to those.
To: gaggs
Take a hole puncher and punch a little hole on the opposite side of the floppy and now you have a double-sided eight inch floppy disk. Problem solved.
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posted on
07/25/2017 6:20:49 AM PDT
by
jpl
("You are fake news.")
To: thoughtomator
Who wants megabytes of libraries calling on each other and all of the hidden execuatibles running in background to search through and observe to see if they were in collusion with The Rooskies?
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posted on
07/25/2017 6:21:29 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
To: gaggs
To: gaggs
No need to fix what ain’t broke .....
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posted on
07/25/2017 6:22:10 AM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
(There is no difference between liberals/moslems/lamestream)
To: cincinnati65
3.5s were the pits for reliability.
The older ones were yugely better in function.
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posted on
07/25/2017 6:23:46 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
To: gaggs
I’m just wondering where they get the 8in floppies. They don’t last forever and have to be replaced.
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posted on
07/25/2017 6:23:47 AM PDT
by
GMMC0987
To: gaggs
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posted on
07/25/2017 6:28:40 AM PDT
by
onona
(Stop stonewalling Judicial Watch and release the documents)
To: Bratch
Look at it this way ... You can’t hack it.
Anybody want Nuclear Missiles controlled by Windows-10?
To: gaggs
Good news: it is likely that those machines cannot be hacked by ordinary hackers.
They would need a bridge, a computer capable of talking with both their machines and the old ones and IBM didn’t ever make many of the type that can do that.
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posted on
07/25/2017 6:31:42 AM PDT
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: gaggs
That may be an advantage.
Not so susceptible to viruses or hacking.
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posted on
07/25/2017 6:32:35 AM PDT
by
metmom
( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
To: gaggs
Bernoulis forever...... LOL! Probably spelled it wrong but heck yeah I remember them. Guess if they upgrade to a thumb drive somebody will lose it.
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posted on
07/25/2017 6:33:08 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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