I think the last time I used a computer that COULD even use a floppy disc was at least six years ago, perhaps longer.
It is time to cut half the departments…and cut the ones left in half….the only people making money are government workers and welfare class…the rest are going downhill fast….look for Sears, and jc penney to go out of business soon..it back to rice and beans…forget the 15 dollar an hour fast food…we can not afford the prices now...
“...still receive some of it on the 3.5-inch...”
That’s not to bad. Wouldn’t be surprised if they were still using 5 1/4 floppy’s.
A few months ago I tried to help my mother submit a certification that she had not remarried to SS. She’d sent one earlier, but it was ‘lost’. They would accept a fax, but I could not email a scanned copy of the document. It was hell just trying to find an email address on their website & there was no way to attach a document. I sent a note asking how I could send a pdf file. I got a response to my question two weeks later that they do not accept pdf files. By that time, my mother had already mailed (registered, of course) the second document.
Too many federal agencies are still technologically in the 80’s or early 90’s. Just ridiculous!
I always get a charge out of federal cube critters pedantically following rules while higher-ups abuse their powers of office in cahoots with their lefty political comrades. IRS, NSA et al
Flash drives are a security risk. And not a reliable storage media. They are easily corrupted.
CD’s are better.
Floppies? not large enough to do useful work today. Possibly Zip drives. I know lots of businesses that use them for daily backup.
But then again, HHS is run by idiots. But what do you expect from ComDem POLs?
In that case, I’d recommend that no one board a space shuttle.
Haven’t had a computer with a diskette drive for years. It’s time the Federal Government received an 80% haircut.
Why not a CD and a DVD? They’re two separate forms of media - they just look identical.
Actually, I could see a non-volatile medium requirement for some sorts of documents: paper, CD-ROM or DVD-ROM but not floppies, flash drives or SD cards.
But allowing floppies, but not flash drives or SD cards makes no sense at all — either can be rewritten.
It is my understanding that the Air Traffic Control for the US still has paper slips that contain Aircraft ID, equipment code, flight plan, destination, fuel, etc.
Now, granted, this is the “backup” for when the computers are down.
OTOH, the computers DO go down. Sometimes with the COMs as well.
I was looking at this recently... because I wanted to add a particular remark (place for a special note) on a flight plan, and was told that “Remarks” ONLY appears on the paper slip, and not carried in the computer packets that controllers view on their displays.
Flash drives and SD cards are seen as too easy to compromise and counterfeit, even having the equivalent of hardware viruses in their wiring. Plug them in once and you’re boned. In many government agencies, US and foreign, they are banned outright.
I wonder if i could get one of those machines just to check what’s on the old disks in the basement that i’m afraid to throw away.
Because all the money we spent to get 16 Trillion dollars in debt wasn't enough to to update office computers for 20 years.
We can have Mega-structure computer farms to spy on and collect data on US citizens, but somehow, agencies doing routine work are still on 486 computers with floppies. Progressive priorities.
Because all the money we spent to get 16 Trillion dollars in debt wasn't enough to to update office computers for 20 years.
We can have Mega-structure computer farms to spy on and collect data on US citizens, but somehow, agencies doing routine work are still on 486 computers with floppies. Progressive priorities.
Hang on to those slide rules, M-1’s and compasses.
We were required by one of our Federal contracts (an agency of huge proportions and infamous reputation) to have on site several reel-to-reel tape drives for them to test with. This was as late as 2008.
