Posted on May 26, 2016
U.S. using floppy disks to run nuclear program
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What could go wrong? ;-) This made me laugh and SMH at the same time.
U.S. using floppy disks to run nuclear program
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Nuclear
Technology
Humor
Posted 8 y ago
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In the 1980's we unlocked tactical warheads with tube technology "computers" That damn portable box weighed around 40 pounds. It hooked up to vehicle power.
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CPT Aaron Kletzing - Captain; What could be more secure than using technology that no one else is using?
[ASIDE - There are a few firms that are making a nice income out of the fact that they purchased equipment/software when it was becoming obsolete and have maintained it is fully operational condition. It seems that they are the only people who can actually access much of the information that was originally created/stored using that equipment/software and convert it into a form that is currently usable.]
[ASIDE - There are a few firms that are making a nice income out of the fact that they purchased equipment/software when it was becoming obsolete and have maintained it is fully operational condition. It seems that they are the only people who can actually access much of the information that was originally created/stored using that equipment/software and convert it into a form that is currently usable.]
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exactly sir, They have one of the most secure stand alone system due to this old tech and with what that tech is guarding, I would leave it closed loop and not update new tech why? It was going to work in 20th cent and it will work here in 21st.
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One of the greatest problems in upgrading the hardware is that there is a world of very complex software that has been validated for the old technology, and validating the new software would be extremely expensive and time consuming. The old software code was platform specific and upgrading the platform would mean re-creating and validating all of the software from scratch - where a single bug could prove disastrous.
It was for this reason that the space shuttle was still using wire-wound memory when it was retired - the design freeze for its hardware systems dated back to the 1970s.
http://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch4-5.html
It was for this reason that the space shuttle was still using wire-wound memory when it was retired - the design freeze for its hardware systems dated back to the 1970s.
http://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch4-5.html
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