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To: C19fan
US military uses 8-inch floppy disks to coordinate nuclear force operations

Sometimes the military uses antiquated equipment, especially software, to ensure that all the bugs and shortfalls are known and worked out. In this case, I'm wondering where they are getting their supply of 8-inch floppies.

18 posted on 05/26/2016 6:28:37 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (0bama's gift to Michelle [aka Michael Robinson] - Men in Women's bathrooms.)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Yeah, there are some critical systems that you can’t tolerate having “teething problems” with.


24 posted on 05/26/2016 6:54:48 AM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: The Sons of Liberty
I'm wondering where they are getting their supply of 8-inch floppies.

Well, I'm fairly sure that the dumpster behind my old office was emptied some years ago. :) I used to buy them from Radio Shack. We had state of the art tape back up too!

42 posted on 05/26/2016 7:41:22 AM PDT by DeFault User
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To: The Sons of Liberty

“In this case, I’m wondering where they are getting their supply of 8-inch floppies.”

Dunno, but I have a box of them that I’d sell. Our office once had a Wang word processor that used them.


49 posted on 05/26/2016 8:59:26 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves. Socialism is governmental theft!)
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